Four people have died, and 26 were injured after a passenger train heading to Ukraine collided with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, officials have said, APA reports citing The Guardian.
“I can confirm that four people suffered injuries incompatible with life,” local emergency spokesperson Alena Kisiala told broadcaster Czech TV.
The crash occurred on Wednesday evening in Pardubice, part of the country’s main rail corridor from Prague, about 60 km west of the town.
Czech TV reported that the train had been carrying more than 300 passengers, many of them foreigners.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala offered condolences on social media platform X, saying the crash was “a great disaster” and that “we all think of the victims and the injured.”
The interior and transport ministers arrived at the site in the early hours of Thursday. Interior minister Vit Rakusan said most of the injuries were light, and that the passengers had been evacuated into the train station building.
Rakusan said that police were identifying the passengers gathered at the train station after the operator, Regiojet, had provided the passenger list.
Prime minister Petr Fiala offered condolences on social media platform X, saying the crash was “a great disaster” and that “we all think of the victims and the injured”.
The interior and transport ministers arrived at the site in the early hours of Thursday. Interior minister Vit Rakusan said most of the injuries were light, and that the passengers had been evacuated into the train station building.
Rakusan said that police were identifying the passengers gathered at the train station after the operator, Regiojet, had provided the passenger list.
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