
At least 10 people are reported to have been killed after two freight trains collided in Mexico.
Several more were injured, including illegal migrants hitching rides, said the state prosecutor's office in the western state of Sinaloa.
The crash early on Tuesday came after a faulty track change, reports said.
"Someone didn't change the tracks correctly," Martin Gastelum, spokesman for Sinaloa's public prosecutor's office, told Reuters news agency.
"Ten died. The majority are undocumented [migrant]) and the train operators are hurt. There are five people injured," said Mr Gastelum.
One of the trains was carrying a cargo of corn, which was scattered across the accident scene.
There were fears that the death toll could rise. "They are still searching to see if there are bodies buried under the corn," added Mr Gastelum.
Hundreds of migrants from Central America risk their lives to travel across Mexico by rail, hoping to cross illegally into the United States.
Many hitch rides on cargo trains, sometimes falling to their deaths.
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