Train accident in Austria: one dead and twelve injured


One person was killed and 12 injured when a train derailed on Monday (May 9) near Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported.

The accident occurred at the end of the day in the town of Münchendorf, south of the Austrian capital, “for unknown reasons“, told AFP Andreas Zenker, spokesperson for the Red Cross in the region. A car overturned on the embankment, while another ended its race in a field near the rails. Among the injured,three are seriously affected and nine slightly“Said Andreas Zenker, adding that a hundred passengers were on board. “Serious train accident in Münchendorf“, had written the emergency services on Facebook earlier.

Several rescue helicopters and a large contingent of rescuers are mobilized“. The train was operated by the private company Raaberbahn connecting Austria with neighboring Hungary. No representative could immediately be reached. Fatal accidents are rare in this alpine country of nine million inhabitants, a member of the European Union. In February 2018, a train collision killed one person and injured 22. Two months later, 54 people were injured in another accident in Salzburg.



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