Train express in Czech republic, which operated the Munich-Prague route, violated a stop signal and collided with a local regional train, resulting in three people were killed, including the two train drivers, the authorities announced.
According to ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ, eight passengers were seriously injured and several were taken to hospital by helicopter from the crash site near the village of Milavce, in western Czech Republic.
The German passengers with minor injuries were taken by ambulance to hospitals in Germany, according to the German Medical Coordination Service. About fifty passengers in total suffered minor injuries that not required immediate medical attention.
A police spokesman said the three dead were drivers of the two trains and a passenger, all Czechs.
“The Ex 351 violated a stop signal“And it collided with a passenger train,” Transport Minister Karel Havlicek said on Twitter, referring to the high-speed train.
The collision occurred shortly after 08:00 local time (09:00 Greek time) near Milavce, 140 km southwest of the capital Prague.
The high-speed train crashed into a local train traveling from Pilsen to Domazlice, said a spokesman for Ceske Drahy, the Czech railways. In a statement, the German company Die Landerbahn GmbH, which owns the German train, stated that the traffic from the Czech side “was conducted under the responsibility»Of the Czech railways.
The Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis sent condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives in the accident.
Four helicopters, several ambulances and dozens of rescuers were sent to the scene. “The German Red Cross, the Bavarian Ambulance Service and doctors in the town of Cham are also at the scene of the train accident. “The German police also offered their help,” the Czech police said on Twitter.
According to the CTK news agency, the most serious accident on Czech soil occurred in 1960, when the country was part of Czechoslovakia. From a train collision near the city of Pardubice (center) 118 people were killed and others 100 were injured.
In July 2020, three people were killed and dozens were injured in two railway accidents in the Czech Republic.
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