8 Die, 71 Hurt in Danish Train Crash
An express passenger train traveling at a high speed derailed Monday near a station west of Copenhagen, killing eight people and injuring 71 in Denmark’s worst train accident in 21 years, authorities said.
The five-car train, carrying about 300 passengers, was heading from Fredericia in Jutland to Copenhagen when it derailed half a mile before Soroe station, 45 miles west of the capital. Three of the cars overturned, witnesses said.
Railroad authority officials said that the engineer was among the 71 people injured. Seven injured passengers were in critical condition.
The cause of the accident was not known but repairs were being made to the stretch of the track where the express derailed, said Erik Gundersen, head of the state railroad service. Authorit1768256288speed but have declined to say exactly how fast it was going.
It was Denmark’s most serious train accident since a 1967 collision killed 11 people and injured 45.
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