Four dead as trains collide in Russia

Four people have been killed and 15 others have been injured in a train collision near Moscow, the Russian interior ministry said.

The accident happened when several carriages of a cargo train derailed and hit a passenger service near Naro-Fominsk, a town 30 miles south-west of Moscow.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

Ambulance crews have rushed to the scene.

The Emergency Situations Ministry said several carriages in the passenger train, which was travelling from Moscow to Chisinau in Moldova, derailed under the impact of the collision, and some of them overturned.

It said the 15 wounded were in a critical condition, while 30 others were also hurt.