FOUR people have died and 23 more are injured following a horrific train collision in the Czech Republic.
A passenger train carrying 300 people smashed head-on with a freight train late on Wednesday night outside Prague.
AFPThe wreck of the RegioJet passenger train that crashed on Wednesday night[/caption]
AFPFour people died and 23 more were injured[/caption]
AFPFirefighters working in the wreckage late Wednesday night[/caption]
Images from the scene showed the yellow RegioJet train crumpled on the tracks of a main railway route.
Hordes of emergency services were gathered at the scene in Pardubice, a city 100km east of the capital.
Dramatic pictures showed firefighters stabilising the train and digging through the mangled wreck.
The track where it crashed serves as the Czech Republic’s key railway line, connecting it with Slovakia.
The horrific smash happened around 11pm on Wednesday as the train was travelling overnight from Prague to Kosice, a city in Slovakia.
Czech minister Vit Rakusan said none of the injured were left in a life-threatening condition.
But three of the dozens hurt did suffer more serious injuries, Reuters reports.
The four dead have yet to be identified.
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