Head-on train collision in Slovakia. About 100 people injured
At least 20 people were injured in a head-on collision of passenger trains in Slovakia. A rescue operation is underway on site.
A serious collision occurred on Monday near the town of Jablonov nad Turňou in the Slovak Košice Region. Two trains collided there head-on. The police said that the collision occurred in front of the tunnel. “The police are securing the accident site, coordinating the activities of emergency services and directing the movement of people in the area,” police informed on Facebook. Passengers left the trains on their own whenever possible.
Train collision in Slovakia. Rescue operation
Minister of Interior Matúš Šutaj Eštok announced the result About a hundred people were slightly injured and two people were in a critical condition. The services cannot reach three people, it is not known what their condition is. The Minister of Internal Affairs said that the initial cause of the accident was human error and failure to give way by one of the train drivers, but the transport expert did not want to comment on possible causes at this stage.
The spokesman for the Slovak State Railways, Ján Baček, announced that the accident occurred shortly after 10:00. Express trains R 913 and R 914 GEMERAN participated in it. The collision occurred at a track crossing.
Nearby hospitals are preparing to receive trauma patients. Slovak rescue services announced on Facebook that they had sent a helicopter and ambulances to the site.
