13 dead in Poland train crash

Thirteen people were killed and up to 50 injured when two trains collided in in Szczekociny in southern    Poland on Saturday, emergency services said.

The cause of the head-on collision, which Transport Minister Slawomir Nowak, speaking to television station TVN24, described as “one of the worst railway accidents of the last few years”, was not immediately clear.

Pictures released by the channel showed derailed and crashed wagons.

“The rescue is difficult and complicated,” said firefighter Jaroslaw Wojtasik.

“The damage to the wagons is huge. We have contact with victims. We are approaching very cautiously.”

Injured survivors were being evacuated to hospitals in the region.

I felt the blow,” said an unnamed survivor.

“I hit the person before me. The lights went out. Everything flew. We flew over the compartment like bags. We could hear screams.We prayed.”        

TVN24 quoted emergency services as saying 13 people had been killed and up to 50 had been injured.

Some 450 firefighters and 100 police officers were working at the site.

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