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Swiss train crash injures 44

Collision of two commuter trains injured 44 people, four seriously and one yet to be recovered from the wreckage in Switzerland

29.07.2013 - Update : 29.07.2013
Swiss train crash injures 44

GENEVA (AA) - Two commuter trains collided head-on Monday evening in Switzerland and injured 44 people, four seriously.

Public TV station SRF quoted Vaud canton (state) police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard as saying that four people were in critical condition and one person had yet to be recovered from the wreckage.

A local news website, Heures released photos of the crash that happened near the station of Granges-pres-Marnand about 50 kilometers southwest of the capital, Bern. The trains were locked together but remained on track.

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