Two freight trains collided in South Africa on Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least four people critically injured.

The collision took place as one train hit the other on the East Rand in Johannesburg, making one of the train overturned, local paramedics said.

The injured including a woman received the treatment after relief workers rushed to the scene, said the paramedics.

The cause of the accident is still unclear as the local rail department is investigating into it.

It was the latest rail accident to hit South Africa's railway network.On Feb. 7, two trains collided in the southern province of the Eastern Cape, injuring at least 27 passengers and two staff members.

It was reported that over 90 percent of commuter trains in South Africa could date back to half a century ago, with the most recent ones dating from the 1980s.

The South African government is striving to update its ageing railway system, planning to spend more than 14 billion U.S. dollars on railway modernization in the next two decades. Endi

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