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The train slammed into a road bridge which had collapsed just seconds earlier PRAGUE (AFP) - Czech police on Saturday were still trying to identify two victims the day after a freak train crash that killed seven people and left 67 others injured, the interior ministry said. Police have asked for help from Polish authorities, sending them photographs of the two women and their personal effects, a ministry official, Lenka Ptackova-Melicharova, said. The accident occurred Friday when a Eurocity train traveling from the southern Polish city of Krakow to the Czech capital Prague slammed into a road bridge which collapsed during construction seconds before the train's passage. 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... [read full story]
