A Dutch passenger train derailed after smashing into a crane early on Tuesday, killing a maintenance worker and injuring 30 other people in the Netherlands' worst rail accident for years. | ManilaBulletin
A Dutch passenger train derailed after smashing into a crane early on Tuesday, killing a maintenance worker and injuring 30 other people in the Netherlands' worst rail accident for years.
King Willem-Alexander later visited the crash site where one of the damaged yellow and blue passenger carriages lay in a meadow while the three others were strewn across the rails. Thirty people were injured, with 19 taken to hospital and 11 treated at the scene, emergency services said. Maintenance work involving the crane was under way when the crash happened, with two out of four tracks in the area being out of use.The head of Dutch train operator NS, Wouter Koolmees, said the "devastation is very big".Emergency services described a "chaotic situation" with rescue workers having to use wooden boards to cross a narrow canal, while watching for danger from damaged electrical cables.
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