At least 16 people were killed, and hundreds were hurt, in separate accidents early Friday in Indonesia when two trains collided and a ferry caught on fire, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/28/world/asia/AP-AS-Indonesia-Travel-Disasters.html?_r=1&hp
The accidents happened on the Indonesia’s main island, Java, roughly 30 minutes apart.
In the rail crash, at 2:30 a.m. a passenger train stopped on a track near the village of Banjar was struck head-on by another train that was trying to switch to another rail. At least five people died in that collision.
A half hour later, and about 200 miles away, a crowded ferry boat burst into fire in the sea just off Java, sending passengers jumping off the vessel. More than 400 people were rescued.
Several survivors claimed that the fire was caused by a man who tossed his lit cigarette butt onto the ferry’s deck.