Several badly hurt in Austrian train crash - police

Reuters

6 May 2015 at 6:13 am

VIENNA (Reuters) - Several people were seriously injured in a collision between two passenger trains near the southeastern Austrian city of Graz on Wednesday morning, police said. Broadcaster ORF cited emergency services saying a train driver was trapped in the wreckage and nine people were hurt. A spokeswoman for train operator Steiermaerkische Landesbahnen said it was not immediately clear what caused the crash in a remote area. (Reporting by Michael Shields and Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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