Many of the people hurt in the crash are reported to be foreign tourists.A Peru Rail train bumped into the rear of an Inca Rail train several dozen kilometers from the world-famous tourist attraction near the town of Ollantaytambo on Tuesday morning at around 9 a.m.The photos of the incident show the windows of a carriage shattered and its metal frame damaged from the impact.Machu Picchu municipal authorities have confirmed that five people have been badly injured in the incident, three of them were transferred to a hospital in Urubamba Province, while the others were taken to the city of Cusco, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.Many among them are foreign travelers.While police have launched an investigation into the incident,A witness told state-run Andina news agency that the Inca Rail train was stranded for nearly an hour as police worked to remove a group of local demonstrators. The accident on Tuesday took place when trains operated by two competing rail companies crashed on the principal route to the ruins from the village of Ollantaytambo, near Cusco, in southern Peru, said local police. Farfan said a train operated by PeruRail S.A., owned jointly by Belmond Ltd and Ferrocarril Transandino S.A., struck a train operated by IncaRail, another railway service that takes tourists to Machu Picchu, Peru's biggest tourist site.
In Peru, two trains collide en route to Machu Picchu, injuring 15.