Switzerland train crash: Trains collide in Switzerland, injuring 35

Switzerland train crash: Trains collided head-on near Granges-pres-Marnard in western Switzerland on Monday evening, just two days after a train derailment in Spain killed 79.

By Associated Press / July 29, 2013

Rescue personnel work at the site where two passenger trains collided head-on in Granges-pres-Marnand, western Switzerland, Monday, July 29. Police say at least dozens of people were injured, four of them seriously.

Laurent Gillieron/Keystone/AP

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At least 35 people were injured, five of them seriously, in a head-on collision of two?trains?in western?Switzerland?late Monday, police said. One person had yet to be recovered from the wreckage.

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The crash happened near the station of Granges-pres-Marnand shortly before 7 p.m. (1700 GMT) on a regional line about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of the capital, Bern. It came just days after 79 people were killed in a high-speed?train?derailment in Spain.

Photographs from the Swiss site showed the two regional?trains?locked together, partly lifted off the tracks by the force of the collision.

Police said several ambulances, fire engines and a helicopter were involved in the rescue operation. Rescuers had not yet been able to reach the driver's cabin of one of the?trains, said the police in the canton (state) of Vaud in a statement.

News website 20min.ch quoted Patricia Claivaz of the Swiss rail company CFF as saying the trapped man was the driver. It was unclear if he was alive.

According to police, the five people who were seriously injured were taken to the hospital in the nearby city of Lausanne.

Earlier, Swiss media had cited police as saying 44 were injured, four of them seriously. It wasn't immediately clear why the injury figure had been lowered.

Switzerland's?rail system is considered among the best and safest in the world. Accidents are rare, though three years ago the country's popular Glacier Express tourist?train?derailed in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42.

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