Killed at least 14 people when passenger trains collided head-on in southern Poland in the late evening Saturday in one of the worst train accidents in Poland for more than 20 years.
The trains carrying an estimated 350 passengers and are moving in opposite directions on the same line when he collided at high speed in a rural area. And wounded at least 54 people.
Stepped up one of the carriages, which was traveling to Warsaw to the top by the force of the collision. And went out of other vehicles on the tracks and rolled on her side.
He said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who arrived to the scene with several government officials, a Chrin in the early hours of Sunday morning, "This is certainly the most tragic Korat trains in our history for many years.
"We can not at this time to give full responsibility for the final number of dead. We expect at least 14, but we are afraid to rise to 15 Hmaaladd."
He said it was too early to predict because of the collision, but added that he can not rule out human error.
Was not immediately known the fate of the drivers of the trains at a time when the authorities still determine the identities of the dead.
And rushed more than 350 firefighters to the scene, but they had to carry their equipment into their own hands, because the trains collided in the center of the field does not go through the only railway tracks.
With the help of a dog trained rescuers continued to search for victims of others in a dented steel blocks where Tusk said they had found the body of another one at least.
Said one survivor, "I was shocked. The person who hit the front of me. The lights were turned off. And everything flew. And we flew in the cabin, such as bags. And we could hear the screaming."
And transport the injured to nearby hospitals. It was among the passengers, many of the Ukrainians as well as French and Spaniards, but not one of them is transferred to the hospital.
Source: Reuters
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