Train crash wreckage searched
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POLICE still searching the wreckage of a fatal level crossing smash have asked people who bought tickets for the trip to come forward in the hope of tracking down three missing people. At least 11 people were killed and 23 injured, 12 seriously, when a truck ploughed into a country passenger train in one of the nation’s worst rail disasters. Three people are still unaccounted for and police are asking anyone who bought tickets for the fatal service to let them know if they did not board the train. This morning, two more bodies have been pulled from the twisted wreckage and emergency services say much more metal and steel will have to pulled apart and removed for the remaining bodies to be retrieved. State Emergency Service (SES) controller in Kerang Shane Leerson said volunteers would help police inside the rail carriages torn apart by the impact. “We’ve got a big day ahead of us, we’ve got to remove a lot of the twisted metal and steel and recover the deceased that are still inside the carriage,” he said on Channel 9 Assistant police commissioner Noel Ashby said the road would remain closed for two or three days. He said that after today’s recovery work, investigators would reconstruct the crash but it could be weeks before their findings were ready for the coroner. He said experts would today begin the task of identifying the 11 victims. “We’ve got the disaster victim identification unit people here at the moment and they will start their process,” he said. He urged family and friends of the victims to be patient. “We hope to get information out as quickly as we can but we also ask the public to understand that this will take us some time,” he said. Horror smash Federal