At least 3 killed ,10 injured in train-vehicle collision in Dominican

At least three people were killed and more than 10 passengers injured when a bus packed with French tourists collided late Thursday with a train in the eastern Dominican Republic, a defense official said here on Friday. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals, said Amado Avila, director of the civil defense agency for La Altagracia Province. The two men and a woman who were killed were French citizens but their names were not yet available, he said. Nearly 30 French tourists were on board the bus along with two Dominicans. It was coming from the airport when it struck a train operated by a sugar company near the town of San Rafael del Yuma, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Santo Domingo. The tourists were apparently heading for the Punta Cana tourist complex. The cause of the crash was under investigation.