Train rams bus Six people killed in collision between Eurocity and bus in Slovakia
The train was traveling from Prague in the direction of Budapest. It crashed into a regional bus near the Slovakian town of Nove Zamky. Six people died.
27.06.2024, 22:00
27.06.2024, 22:57
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- Six people have died in a collision between an express train and a bus in Slovakia. Several others were injured.
- According to TV station RTVS, the bus was literally torn apart in the collision.
- 100 passengers were on the Eurocity train traveling from Prague towards Budapest.
Six people died in a collision between an express train and a bus in Slovakia. Several others were injured. This was announced by the state rescue service on Thursday evening.
As the news agency TASR reported, citing information from the police and state railroad company ZSSK, there were more than 100 passengers on the Eurocity train traveling from Prague towards Budapest, which collided with a regional bus near the town of Nove Zamky.
The public TV station RTVS reported that the bus was literally torn apart in the collision. The locomotive of the train had started to burn.
It was initially unclear why the accident occurred. There was speculation in the media that the signal system at the level crossing could have been damaged by the flooding that had been going on since Wednesday evening. There was initially no official confirmation of this.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok confirmed at the scene of the accident that all of the dead were passengers on the bus. Not all of them had been identified by the evening. The train driver was among the injured, all others were bus passengers. They had to be taken to Bratislava and other distant hospitals because the nearest district hospital, Nove Zamky, was closed due to flooding.
