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Sep 13 2008, Brent

The probable cause of the collision that killed at least 18 people was the failure of a Metrolink engineer to stop his train at a red signal, a spokeswoman for the Metrolink commuter rail service said.

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This is an image taken from TV that a Pakistani TV station aired Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 which purportedly shows a Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak who was abducted last month by militants in the nation’s volatile northwest.