3 dead, 40 injured as passenger, freight trains crash in Belgium
A passenger train has collided with a freight train in eastern Belgium, killing three people and injuring 40, Belgian officials said.
“A train... carrying around 40 passengers crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track,” Belgian railways SNCB said in a statement late on Sunday.
The collision, which took place in the eastern municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse, derailed two of the six carriages of the passenger train.
Local emergency services and reinforcements from the nearest city of Liege rushed to the site of the crash. A crisis center was set up at the scene.
Françis Dejon, the mayor of the Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse district told Belga news agency that the impact of the crash was “very violent.”
Witnesses said the passenger train was travelling at high speed when it crashed turning the front carriage on its side.
Several passengers had to be extracted from the wreckage.
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