the Train has been running on something. In connection with it, there has been a sharp deceleration, ” says press officer at DSB to Ekstrabladet.
the Accident occurred at 07: 30 on-time on Wednesday. A large rescue operation with police, ambulances and the fire brigade is on site.
Several people have been killed in connection with a train accident on the Great belt bridge in Denmark on Wednesday morning. Photo: Tim K. Jensen/Ritzau Scanpix
at a press conference held in Odense in the morning to a large number of people have lost their lives and been injured in the train crash on the bridge across the Great Belt.
– Several people have been killed in the train crash, but unfortunately, we can currently not give any details of the accident scale. But what we do know is that a freight train rammed the train, ” says Arne Grams from Funen Police at the press conference.
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Arne Gram also said that the police have set up a feeding in Nyborg for the passengers who have been evacuated from the train. There were 160 people on board.
“Our focus is to help the passengers,” says Arne Grams.
What caused the accident is still not clear. Photo: Tim K. Jensen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP
when it passed passagerartåget who drove to Copenhagen. According to Banedanmark has parts of the roof, tarps, and cargo from some of the wagons has broken off and met passagerartåget, writes the jyllands-posten newspaper. It blows a very strong crosswind on the bridge in the wake of the storm, Alfrida.
– the Wind comes almost straight from the north and the blowing thus across the Öresund and Great Belt, said duty meteorologist Henning Gisselø to the newspaper.
DSB says it can not confirm the details at present but the company are investigating the cause. It has also started an accident to investigate the accident.
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passengers have put up the pictures from inside the train at the devastation after the crash.
” We felt a hard braking and then heard the something that sounded like gravel rammed the train from the side, say the passenger Tore Bentsen to Ekstrabladet.
another traveler tells TV2 that she heard an unusual sound in the cockpit before the crash.
the Sound became higher and higher, until the three windows suddenly shattered. I don’t know what caused it, but the train continued to run. It is difficult to assess for how long, maybe two minutes. I was in shock and I crawled in under my seat, ” says Li Peng to TV2.
Pictures from TV2 shows a freight train with clear damage that is stationary just after the bridge.
the Great belt bridge is a motorway and railway link across the Great Belt in Denmark, between Funen in the west and Zealand to the east.
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car Traffic on the bridge has been opened in one direction, but it is unclear when the train service can be up and running again. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, according to police, at the same time, calls on motorists not to slow down to take pictures of the scene of the accident.
writing on Twitter that he has conveyed his sympathy after the serious accident to the prime minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
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