Iran's train crash kills at least eight people

Two passenger trains collided in Iran's north-central province of Semnan on early Friday, killing at least eight people and injuring over 50 others, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.

"The death toll has reached eight and some 52 others have been injured. The injured passengers have been transferred to nearby hospitals," Fars cited local officials as saying.

A spokesman for Iran's Red Crescent, Mostafa Mortazavi, said that firefighters were trying to control the blaze. "The accident happened when a passenger train in motion crashed to another one that had stopped at the station," Reuters cited him as saying.

The cause of the collision was under investigation, it said, adding that rescue teams have been dispatched to the site of accident.