Dozens injured as a passenger train collides with a locomotive in Slovakia
Several people were injured when a passenger train collided with a locomotive in Slovakia.
According to TV Marchesa's estimates, at least 100 people were injured on Friday evening.
The Bratislava Ministry of Transport and the state railway company confirmed the accident to the Slovak news agency "TASR", but they did not give any information on the number of injured or dead.
On social media, police called on drivers to avoid approaching the site of the accident near the Strykno municipality in northern Slovakia to facilitate the arrival of firefighting and rescue vehicles.
The Transport Ministry said Transport Minister Andre Dolezal was on his way to the site near an important railway junction.
There, railroads from within the country to the capital, Bratislava, as well as those to the Czech Republic, meet.
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