VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands (AP) — A practice derailed close to The Hague within the early hours of Tuesday, sending two carriages right into a subject subsequent to the tracks, Dutch emergency providers stated. One individual died and a few 30 passengers have been injured, a lot of them significantly.
Tv photographs confirmed individuals utilizing makeshift bridges to cross a canal operating alongside the rails to achieve the stricken practice within the darkness. Many home windows within the practice carriages have been damaged. It was not clear if that occurred throughout the accident or as passengers tried to flee.
Pictures from the scene confirmed two of the brilliant yellow and blue practice carriages perpendicular to the tracks mendacity throughout a small canal and partially in a subject. What seemed to be the entrance of the practice was badly broken. Different elements of the practice have been partially derailed.
Pictures confirmed a freight practice additionally stopped on rails near the wreckage of the passenger practice.
Injured passengers have been handled in properties close to the road and transported in a fleet of ambulances to hospitals, together with a “calamity hospital” opened within the central metropolis of Utrecht.
The reason for the accident that occurred round 3:25 a.m. (0125 GMT) within the city of Voorschoten, close to The Hague, was not instantly clear. Dutch media reported that there was a small development crane on the tracks, however authorities didn't instantly affirm that.
The native fireplace brigade tweeted after the crash that it seemed to be a collision between a passenger practice and “constructing materials.”
“A horrible practice accident close to Voorschoten, the place sadly one individual died and many individuals have been injured. My ideas are with the kinfolk and with all of the victims. I want all of them the most effective,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte stated in a tweet.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima additionally expressed their sympathy in a tweet.
Ingrid de Roos, a spokeswoman for native fireplace providers, instructed information present WNL that a small fireplace broke out on the rear of the practice however was shortly extinguished.
John Voppen, CEO of the rail community firm Professional Rail, referred to as the accident “a black day for Dutch railways” and stated the trigger was underneath investigation.
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Corder reported from The Hague.
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