three people killed and eight others seriously injured today when a high-speed train connecting Munich with Prague violated a stop sign and collided with a local train in the Czech Republic, Czech authorities announced.
Several passengers were airlifted to hospitals from the crash site near the village of Milavce in western Czech Republic, the regional rescue service said. Fifty people suffered minor injuries that did not require immediate medical attention.
A police spokesman said three people had been killed, but could not confirm local media reports that the drivers of the two trains and a passenger were dead.
“The Ex 351 violated a stop sign and 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 railway running the two trains. The spokesman said the drivers of the two trains were Czechs.
A Reuters photographer captured the damaged driver’s cab on the high-speed train and the damaged front of the local train. The two trains remain upright on or near the rails.
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