Another train crash victim identified as Czech - Summary

Prague - Another female victim of Friday's train accident in eastern Czech Republic was Czech, while the identity of the last of the seven victims remains unknown, police said Saturday. Revising earlier reports, police said that four women and two men died when a speeding international train with some 400 passengers onboard rammed into a collapsed bridge in the north-eastern town of Studenka. Another passenger, a young Ukrainian man, later succumbed to injuries in a hospital, police spokeswoman Miroslava Michalkova Salkova told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Three female victims were Czech and one Polish, while the identity of one woman is unknown, she said. Both men killed at the scene were Czech. In all 67 passengers were treated in local hospitals, including the Ukrainian victim, two French nationals, two Slovaks and 13... [read full story]                    

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