Rescuers were racing to reach survivors on Tuesday morning outside Indonesia’s capital Jakarta after two trains collided overnight, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.

Anna Purba, a spokeswoman for the state-owned KAI rail company, told local television in the early morning hours that seven people had been killed in the crash and 81 were injured.

She said rescuers were working to get to two people still trapped, alive, in the wreckage.

One survivor recalled the horrific moments...