Six killed, 11 injured in train, bus collision in western Ukraine

KIEV, Feb. 14 -- Six people were killed and 11 others injured on Saturday when a train crashed into a passenger bus in western Ukraine, officials said.

"The accident took place near the village of Proshovo, about 25kilometers from the Ternopil region in western Ukraine around noon," Igol Krol, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry's spokesman, told reporters.

"When a passenger bus with about 23 people on board attempted to cross an unguarded railway crossing and was struck by the train," he said.

"Five people died at the scene, and the sixth person died later at a hospital, another eleven people were hospitalized," he added.

The cause of the accident is under police investigation.