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Police officers stand around a local train that derailed and crashed into a residential building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm on Jan. 15, 2013.

Reuters reports — A cleaning lady allegedly stole a Swedish train and drove it off the end of the tracks and smashed into a house outside Stockholm on Tuesday.

It was not clear how the woman, around 20, got access to the key needed to start the train. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but the train was carrying no other passengers as it was in the early hours and no one in the house was hurt.

"The cleaner drove the train at high speed, considerably higher than normal on that stretch, to where the rails end and crashed into a house," said Jesper Pettersson, spokesman at Stockholm Public Transport (SL).

The train ploughed past the end of the line and vaulted over a street separating the house from the depot, crashing through a balcony and into a downstairs room in the upscale suburb of Saltsjobaden. SL and police were investigating how she had gained access to the cabin and been able to drive the train.

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Swiss firemen stand beside a demolished RE 440 train after a train crash in the northern Swiss town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall on Jan. 10, 2013.

Reuters reports — Two Swiss trains collided on Thursday, injuring 17 people, none of them seriously, and closing the line near the German border, police said.

The two local trains, one travelling from Winterthur and the other from Schaffhausen, crashed just outside the Neuhausen station in northern Switzerland. Read the full story.

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Rescue helpers stand at the scene where two passenger trains collided near Neuhausen, northern Switzerland, on Jan. 10, 2013.

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Railway officials oversee the clear up operation of the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penukonda, about 105 miles north of Bangalore, India, on May 22, 2012.

The Associated Press reports — A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.

Rescuers worked for about six hours to pull some 70 survivors from the twisted and smoldering wreckage near the southwestern border of Andhra Pradesh state. Read the full story.

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Rescuers evacuate an injured woman from the train.

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Emergency services search for injured passengers under the derailed carriages.

Three people were killed and 13 injured when a German regional train collided with a digger which was working on the rail line south of Frankfurt early on Friday morning, Reuters reports.   

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Emergency services and employees of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn attend the scene following a crash between a regional train and a digger in Muehlheim near Offenbach, 9 miles south of Frankfurt, on April 13, 2012.

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Police officers stand next to the wreckage.

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An injured passenger is lifted from athe train wreckage by firefighters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Feb. 22, after an accident in Once train station. The city emergency service confirmed so far 550 injured and at least 40 fatal casualties when a suburban train failed to break and ran into the buffers at the railway terminus.

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Rescue workers extract a passenger from a commuter train that crashed into the Once train station at rush hour in Buenos Aires on Feb. 22. Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi confirmed that 340 people were injured and that passengers were still trapped inside after the train's brakes failed.

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Police and rescue workers surround a train that crashed at Once train station in Buenos Aires on Feb. 22. At least 340 people were injured in the accident, authorities informed.

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Rescue workers carry a passenger who was injured when a commuter train crashed into the Once train station during rush hour in Buenos Aires, Feb. 22. Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi confirmed that 340 people were injured and that passengers were still trapped inside when the train's brakes failed.

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Commuters help a passenger who was injured when a commuter train crashed into the Once train station during rush hour in Buenos Aires, Feb. 22, 2012. Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi confirmed that 340 people were injured and that passengers were still trapped inside when the train's brakes failed.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, Argentina's transportation secretary said.

"There are people still trapped, people alive, and there may have been fatalities. We don't know if there are dead people" in the wreckage, J.P. Schiavi told reporters at the station.

The commuter train came in too fast and hit the barrier at the end of the platform, smashing the front of the engine and crunching the first car behind it, according to reports.

For the latest on the train crash in Argentina click here.

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A disaster response worker searches a rail car for casualties in a derailed passenger train following an accident at Sathi Sarapa village near Gauhati, India, on Feb. 3, 2012.

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Onlookers and rescue workers gather around the derailed train on Feb. 3, 2012.

The Associated Press reports from GAUHATI, India: 

A railway official says a train hit a bulldozer and derailed in northeastern India, killing three passengers.

S. Hajong says at least 16 people were injured when nine coaches of the train derailed after the crash at an unmanned crossing in Assam state. The bulldozer got stuck while crossing the track, Hajong said Friday.

Local villagers and police have pulled all the passengers from the derailed cars. Continue reading.

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A picture made avalailable on November 1 shows a train on fire after it rammed into a tanker near Kota Kinabalu International Aiport, Sabah, Malaysia, on October 31.

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Volunteers and rescue workers push an injured woman on a stretcher after a passenger train and an oil truck collided in Sabah state on October 31.

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Firefighters survey the scene after a passenger train and an oil truck collided near Kota Kinabalu airport on October 31.

European PressPhoto Agency reports:

Malaysian fire and rescue officers are searching for 34 unaccounted-for people a day after a train collided with a fuel tanker. Late Monday, a passenger train carrying 200 people hit a tanker carrying 27,000 litres of petrol in the eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island. The collision caused a massive explosion and fire injuring 12 people, at least two of them seriously.

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Two Amtrak trains rest against each other after colliding at an Oakland, Calif., station on Oct. 12. A fire official said one train was unloading passengers when the second train ran into it at an estimated speed of 15 to 20 miles per hour.

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Amtrak passenger James Ferguson, 90, speaks with emergency responders following the collision. Ferguson, who lives in Los Angeles and has congestive heart failure, was uninjured.

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Paramedics transport an Amtrak passenger to a hospital after two trains collided at an Oakland, Calif., station on Oct. 12.

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Stranded Amtrak passengers gather early on Oct. 13 after two trains collided.

The AP reports from SAN FRANCISCO:

An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers at a station in California, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, authorities said.

The crash occurred late Wednesday as the passenger train, traveling at a speed of up to about 20 mph (32 kph), struck the stationary Amtrak train at the station in Oakland, city Fire Department battalion chief Emon Usher said. Read the full story.