At least one person was killed and 30 injured, many seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50 people derailed in the Netherlands after hitting construction equipment on the track, Dutch emergency services said
Rescue teams were seen ferrying away the injured in pre-dawn darkness at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague. The accident happened around 3:25 a.m. , the emergency services said.
The front carriage of the night train from Leiden city to The Hague derailed and ploughed into a field after the accident, ANP news agency said. The second carriage was on its side and a fire broke out in the rear carriage but was later extinguished, it said.Earlier reports said the passenger train had collided with a freight train. Dutch Railways spokesperson Erik Kroeze said a freight train was involved in the accident but could not give details.
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