Policemen walk near the rail crossing where a passenger train crashed into a bus in Dolores, Buenos Aires province March 9, 2008. A train crashed into a bus in Argentina early on Sunday, killing 18 people and injuring about 45, local media reported. "It seems the driver of the bus passed when the barrier was down and the train cut the bus in half," Daniel Scioli, the provincial governor, told local television at the crash scene. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) 

The death toll in a massive train-bus collision Sunday in southwest Argentina has climbed to 26, with 60 people injured, local police said.

The accident occurred at around 2:00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) when a train carrying 250 people smashed into a coach with 61 passengers and two drivers at a rural rail crossing near Dolores, about 200 km south of the capital Buenos Aires.