Scores injured as Manila train rams through barrier on to intersection

Filipino rescue and police units gather around a train after it overshot a terminal in Pasay City on August 13, 2014. Dennis M Sabangan / EPA

MANILA // A Philippine commuter train rammed through a concrete barrier and rolled into a busy intersection on Wednesday, injuring scores of passengers and damaging vehicles, officials said.

Rescuers removed injured passengers from the front car of the train and took them to a hospital after the accident in Pasay City in metropolitan Manila.

There were no immediate reports of any deaths from the accident, which created a huge traffic jam.

Senior Superintendent Florencio Ortilla, who heads the Pasay city police, said the train toppled concrete posts, spraying debris and damaging cars in the crowded intersection.

Hernando Cabrera, spokesman of the agency that operates the train system, said the train had a “technical problem” and was being pushed by another when it became detached and rolled into the concrete barrier at the final station on the line.

* Associated Press