Madar (Bejaia) - Eighteen people were injured on the morning of Monday, October 19, 2026, when a passenger train collided with a concrete-mixer truck at Bir Slam in Bejaia province, eastern Algeria, the news site TSA reported, citing the Civil Protection.
According to the outlet, the collision happened shortly after 8 a.m. Four of the injured were taken to hospital; the victims are aged between 23 and 64.
The Civil Protection deployed four ambulances and an emergency truck. The cause of the accident is not yet known, and the national rail company SNTF has not commented.
The accident came a day after a person was killed when struck by a train in Sidi Bel Abbes in the west of the country, the outlet said.
