■CUBA
Passenger trains collide
Two passenger trains collided in central Cuba on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 93 others, state media reported. Authorities were investigating why the eastbound and westbound trains hit as they were passing each other on parallel tracks at about 8:30am, outside the city of Sibanicu in Camaguey Province, said the online edition of Adelante, the province’s state-controlled newspaper. The impact knocked some of the cars from the tracks, killing three passengers and injuring 93 others, two of whom were in serious condition, state television said.
■BRAZIL
Six dead in plane crash
A private airplane with 26 people aboard crashed late on Saturday into a river in Brazil, leaving six people dead, four survivors and the rest missing, a local fire department spokesman said. The craft, an Embraer Bandeirante flown by Manaus Aerotaxi, was carrying two crew members and 24 passengers, among them seven children, the spokesman said. The plane had departed from the city of Coari en route to the inland Amazon basin’s largest city Manaus. But because of bad weather, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the River Manacapuru, a tributary of the Amazon, between Santo Antonio and the island of Montecristo.
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