JAKARTA - Fourteen people were killed and more than a dozen injured Sunday when a train slammed into a minibus on a level crossing in the Indonesian province of Central Java, reports said.

At around 10:20 am (11:20am, Singapore time) the train sped through a crossing with a missing safety gate and hit the minibus carrying 35 people, dragging it for a hundred metres, news website Detiknews.com reported.

'The victims were taken to hospitals,' railways spokesman Eko Budiyanto was quoted as saying by the Kompas website.

A police spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

Deadly accidents are common at level crossings in Indonesia, many of which are poorly maintained, especially in densely populated Java island.