No fewer than thirty-five people suffered mostly minor injuries when two passenger trains crashed in the Czech capital of Prague on Wednesday morning, rescuers and rail companies said.
According to the police, one of the drivers tested positive for alcohol, though the rail operator argued that the other driver had likely been at fault.
“One of the trains jumped a red light and crashed into a standing train from behind,” Dusan Gavenda, a spokesman for the railway infrastructure company Sprava Zeleznic, told AFP.
Prague’s emergency service stated that it had treated 35 patients.
“There were light and medium injuries, but no one’s life was in danger,” spokeswoman Jana Postova told AFP.
There were “bruises and scratches, but we also registered some fractures, including a jaw fracture,” she added.
Czech Firefighters in a statement on X said they had evacuated about 200 people onto another train.
