A train collision north of the Danish capital Copenhagen in the early hours of Thursday left a total of 17 people injured, local authorities said. According to the Ritzau news agency, four of them are in critical condition. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency.
- Seventeen people were injured in a train collision near Copenhagen on Thursday morning.
- The four injured are in critical condition and remain under the intensive care of doctors.
- The trains collided head-on between Hillerød and Kagerup, approximately forty kilometers from Copenhagen.
- The police have closed the track and the surrounding area, and emergency services are on the scene.
- Some of the injured were airlifted to the hospital after the accident.
Two trains collided on the railway line between the town of Hilleröd and the village of Kagerup, approximately 40 kilometers from the capital. The cause of the collision is not yet known.
The police closed the track and its surroundings. There are many ambulances, police and fire engines on site. Sources from the emergency services told TV2 that the trains apparently “collided at relatively high speed”.
“It’s two local trains that have collided head-on,” one of the spokespersons of the Copenhagen fire department also confirmed to Reuters that all passengers were freed from the carriages and no one was trapped.
The mayor of the nearby town of Gribskov, Trine Egetvedová, said in a post on Facebook that some of the injured were airlifted to hospital. As she added, the accident happened on the local railway line, which is used by many residents of Gribskov – employees and schoolchildren.
