Many Feared Dead As Truck Cruches Into Train

Nothing less that five people were killed and more than 10 injured when a pickup truck crashed into a train in southern Hungary early on Tuesday, derailing a carriage.

The accident happened at a crossing in Mindszent near the Hungarian-Serbian border shortly before 0500 GMT.

“Rescue effort are still ongoing, thus we cannot establish the number of casualties,” a police spokesperson told Reuters.

Local news site delmagyar.hu showed a photograph with the train carriage on its side, and a helicopter ambulance and several ambulance cars at the scene.

The state railway company said a train on its way from Kiskunfelegyhaza to Hodmezovasarhely had crashed with a truck, derailing a carriage with 22 passengers, of whom two were severely injured and a further eight lightly injured.

The truck drove onto the tracks, ignoring the red lights, it said.