BUENOS AIRES - Two passenger trains collided near Buenos Aires on Wednesday, killing at least 3 people and injuring 31 others, local media reported.

The tragedy occurred shortly before 9 pm local time in San Miguel, some 35 km northeast of the capital, when a long-distance train crushed a local train.

A local police spokesman called the incident "catastrophic."

Firefighters, police, sanitary and medical workers have been working hard at the site to normalize the situation as quickly as possible.