Freight trains collide in Oklahoma, three presumed dead

Posted by on Jun 25, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Two freight trains collided head-on and exploded into flames on Sunday in Oklahoma, sending billowing black smoke into the air and leaving three Union Pacific employees missing and presumed dead, authorities said. There was no explanation by Sunday evening as to why the two trains were traveling toward one another on the same track about a mile east of the town of Goodwell, in an unpopulated area near the Texas state line

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