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Dutch passenger and freight trains collide
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Many people were injured when a passenger train and a freight train collided in the Netherlands, according to local media. Rescue personnel evacuated passengers from the crash.
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Several people were “seriously injured” when a passenger train derailed after a collision with a freight train in southern Netherlands, local media reported on Tuesday.
Emergency services were at the scene in the town of Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, ANP reported.
Some 50 people were aboard the passenger train. The front carriage derailed and ploughed into a field, ANP reported, while a fire broke out in the rear carriage.
The Dutch Railway NS said trains to and from Leiden were suspended due to the collision.
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