2024-06-08 02:51:03
The accident occurred simply earlier than 11 p.m. close to the principle railway station in Pardubice, about 100 kilometers east of the capital Prague, Czech TV reported. Greater than 300 passengers, a lot of them foreigners, have been touring on the high-speed prepare.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala expressed his condolences on the X social community, saying it was a “massive tragedy” and that “we’re all pondering of the victims and the injured.”
The Ministers of Inside Affairs and Transport arrived on the scene of the accident at round 1 am. on Thursday. Inside Minister V. Rakušan stated that many of the passengers have been calmly injured and have been evacuated to the railway station constructing.
The high-speed prepare of the non-public firm Regiojet was touring from Prague to the western Ukrainian metropolis of Chop, close to the Slovakian border. Many Ukrainians use the connection by way of Slovakia to Chop to go to their dwelling nation.
Czech TV footage confirmed a minimum of one of many carriages derailed as passengers have been boarded buses close to Pardubice foremost station.
Rescuers stated 9 ambulances, two helicopters and greater than 60 firefighters have been dispatched. Based on the firefighters, the rescue work was difficult as a result of the primary wagon was crushed, which made it tough to succeed in the injured.
Vendula Horakova, a spokeswoman for the native hearth division, advised Czech TV that the freight prepare was carrying calcium carbide. The reason for the accident is below investigation, Transport Minister Martin Kupka stated, including that the railway line connecting the capital Prague with the Czech Republic’s second-largest metropolis Brno and third-largest metropolis Ostrava can be closed for a minimum of a number of hours.
The worst railway accident within the Czech Republic additionally occurred in Pardubice in 1960, when two passenger trains collided north of town, killing 118 folks and injuring round 100.
2024-06-08 02:51:03