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16 dead, 58 injured in Polish train collision
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 03 - 2012

The death toll from Poland's worst train crash in more than two decades reached 16, with 58 injured, Sunday, as rescue
work continued to extract bodies from the wreckage of the head-on
collision in the south of the country, according to dpa.
Rescue workers had by Sunday afternoon retrieved the bodies of the
15th and 16th victims, as they worked to separate the crushed wagons
and clear them off the tracks.
Six of the dead have been identified, and include a female
American, said Tomasz Ozimek, a prosecutor investigating the crash
site. Autopsies will be conducted on Monday, he added.
Among the injured were six Ukrainians, a Moldovan and a passenger
who was likely from the Czech Republic, prosecutors said.
President Bronislaw Komorowski visited a hospital in the city of
Sosnowiec earlier Sunday, where some of the injured had been taken,
and spoke with doctors and those less severely hurt.
"I know from my own experience that sometimes contact with family
is incredibly important, even the most important thing," Komorowski
told the family of two injured women in a hospital in the city of
Sosnowiec.
"Things can only get better now. I wish you all the best," he
said.
Komorowski later visited the scene of the collision, a rural area
surrounded by forests near the town of Szczechociny. A period of
nationwide mourning would be announced once rescue workers finished
clearing the wagons off the tracks, he said.
The crash occurred at 8:57 pm (1957 GMT) Saturday when a
seven-wagon train travelling to Warsaw collided with a four-wagon
Krakow-bound train that was going in the opposite direction. The
second train had been travelling on the wrong tracks, though it was
unclear why.
"There was no sudden braking, only the impact. Suddenly it got
dark and the train stopped," passenger Dariusz Wisniewski told TVN
24. "When we got out, we saw what happened: injured, dead. I could
not believe it."
"This is the most tragic catastrophe in years," said Prime
Minister Donald Tusk, who arrived at the scene late Saturday night.
"We all feel for the victims and for the families of those who died."
Locals from a nearby village had been among the first people to
arrive on the scene and had helped to get the injured out of the
overturned wagons. They later brought blankets and warm drinks.
"We saw many people who could not get out of the train," a man
identifying only as Adam told the Polish Press Agency. "We tried to
break the glass in the windows to make it easier for them."
Thirty of those injured in the crash were in a serious condition.
The interior minister had said earlier it could not be ruled out
that there were more bodies under the wreckage.
"We cannot rule out that there could still be other bodies there,
but we can say that only once the heavy machinery gets here and we
begin lifting," he continued.
Some 450 firefighters and 100 police officers searched the train
until 4 am Sunday to get the injured but living victims out of the
wagons. Ambulances and rescue helicopters took the injured to several
nearby hospitals.


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