DHAKA: Police say there are multiple deaths after a Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus collided at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

Witnesses said on Wednesday the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact, reports gulfnews.com.

Ottawa Fire spokesman Mark Messier told CP24 television there are ‘multiple fatalities’ and a number on the bus are injured.

Messier says there were no injuries on the train.

The accident occurred just outside a suburban train station in the city’s west end in the middle of the morning commute.

Pascal Lolgis, who witnessed the crash, said the bus appeared to drive through a lowered crossing barrier.

‘Boom! It went into the train like that,’ Lolgis said.

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