Paramedics were on Thursday morning trying to rescue a man trapped in the wreckage of a train following an accident in Mpumalanga that killed one woman near Ermelo, police said.

A train smashed into a coach at about 5.30am, causing the death of the woman and leaving a locomotive assistant trapped," Superintendent Abie Khoabane said.

"We are still investigating but these two people are the only ones we know of at the moment," he said.

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