Around 50 injured after wagons derail and hit stationary train

Around 50 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when two express trains collided in a station at Horažďovice in south-western Bohemia on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Czech Railways said the last two wagons on a train travelling from Plzeň to Ceske Budějovice were derailed, slamming into a stopped train going from Plzeň to Brno. The second train was also derailed in the incident, which may have been caused by a mistake in switching. Three of the most seriously injured were taken to hospital by helicopter.

Author: Ian Willoughby