Prague - A Polish woman, a Ukrainian man and three Czechs were among the seven victims of Friday's train accident in eastern Czech Republic, the worst in 13 years, police said Saturday. Revising its earlier reports, police said that four young women and two men, one young and one middle-aged, 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 Ukrainian man, later succumbed to injuries in a hospital, police spokesperson Miroslava Michalkova Salkova told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. One female victim was Czech and one Polish, while the identities of two women remain 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...
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