The variety of casualities just isn’t but established, mentioned police. (Representational)
Budapest:
A number of individuals have been killed when a pick-up truck crashed right into a practice in southern Hungary early on Tuesday, derailing carriages, police mentioned.
A variety of different individuals have been injured within the accident at a crossing in Mindszent close to the Hungarian-Serbian border shortly earlier than 0500 GMT, police added.
“Rescue effort are nonetheless ongoing, thus we can’t set up the variety of casualties,” a police spokesperson instructed Reuters.
Native information website delmagyar.hu mentioned seven individuals had died within the crash, exhibiting {a photograph} with the practice carriage on its facet, and a helicopter ambulance and several other ambulance vehicles on the scene.
The state railway firm mentioned a practice on its approach from Kiskunfelegyhaza to Hodmezovasarhely had crashed with a truck, derailing a carriage with 22 passengers, of whom two have been severely injured and an extra eight frivolously injured.
The truck drove onto the tracks, ignoring the purple lights, it mentioned.
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