At least 5 individuals died and 5 have been injured after a prepare touring from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, officers mentioned.
More than 100 individuals have been aboard the Eurocity prepare when the accident passed off shortly after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) within the city of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway firm ZSSK mentioned. The deaths and accidents have been confirmed by Slovakia’s rescue service.
Video footage confirmed that the engine of the prepare was on fireplace. The bus was badly broken within the crash, railway officers mentioned.
Interior Minister Matus Sutai Estok was heading to the scene of the accident, police mentioned.
The main prepare monitor linking Slovakia’s capital Bratislava with Budapest was closed till additional discover.
The greater than 100 stranded passengers aboard the stricken prepare have been being transported by buses to the city of Sturovo on the Hungarian border, ZSSK mentioned.
President Peter Pellegrini, who was in Brussels to attend a summit of European Union leaders, supplied his condolences to the kinfolk of the useless.
“I wish the injured a speedy recovery and thank the doctors and rescue teams for their work done,” Pellegrini mentioned. “I wish that such catastrophes would avoid Slovakia in the future.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com