Report: Czech, Polish And Slovakian IRON MAIDEN Fans Involved In Fatal Train Crash
August 8, 2008, 16 years ago
AFP.com has issued the following report:
An express train crashed Friday into a Czech road bridge which collapsed during construction seconds before the train's passage, killing seven people and injuring dozens, rescue services said.
The freak nature of the accident was underlined when rail investigators later revealed that the train had been running 10 minutes late as it approached the metal bridge near Studenka in the northwest of the country.
The locomotive and six passenger carriages came off the tracks and were left a mass of twisted metal. Emergency services arrived at the scene to find dead, injured, bags and train seats scattered everywhere.
Rescue services spokesman Lukas Himpl said 67 people had been treated for injuries, of whom 13 were very badly hurt. A Polish man and five Czech women were killed in the crash and a seventh person died later in hospital.
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There were about 400 people on the train at the time, including a large group of Czech, Polish and Slovakian youths making for a rock concert by British heavy metal band IRON MAIDEN at a Prague football stadium on Friday night.
"Our carriage was full of young people and we were having fun, then there was the crash, chaos. People were dying, they had no legs and arms. I am alive, I have been born again," one woman passenger told the CTK news agency.
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