A Moscow-bound passenger train collided with a freight train Saturday south of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, killing at least nine people and injuring another 23, a Georgian official said.

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Doctors were dispatched from the republic's capital of Tbilisi to treat the injured at the crash site near Gantiadi, about 21 miles south of Sochi, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported.

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