Several killed in Czech train crash, dozens injured

At least four people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to rescue services.

Four people died and more than two dozen were injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train late on Wednesday in the Czechcity of Pardubice, the regional governor said.

“A head-on collision between a RegioJet train and a freight train claimed several lives and left dozens injured,” Martin Netolicky, governor of the Pardubice region, said on Facebook.

Firefighters, paramedics and doctors, as well as at least one rescue helicopter, were deployed to the scene of the accident, some 100 kilometers east of the capital Prague.

Some 23 people were injured in the collision, according to Interior Minister Vit Rakusan.