Two packed commuter trains collided head-on in a morning rush-hour traffic in the Austrian capital Vienna, leaving five people seriously hurt, emergency services said.
“At the moment there are five people seriously injured and several people with light injuries,” emergency services spokeswoman Claudia Gigler told AFP today. “The seriously injured were taken immediately to hospital.”
Austrian automobile association OeAMTC said that one person was trapped inside the wreckage, and that many of the passengers were suffering from shock.
Gigler added that the reason for the crash “remains unclear at the moment.”
Austrian Railways spokeswoman Sarah Nettel said that the crash occurred at 8:45 a.m. (0745 GMT) in the Penzing district of western Vienna.