Last victim identified, Czech rail track operating after accident

Studenka- The last, seventh victim of Friday's rail accident in Studenka was definitively identified as a 29-year-old Czech woman this night when the DNA test confirmed her identity, local police spokeswoman Mirka Salkova Michalkova told CTK today. On Saturday, two female victims still remained unidentified. There were speculations that they may be Poles, but both of them were later identified as Czechs. The accident of an international express train going from Cracow to Prague claimed seven victims and about seventy people were injured. The train crashed into a part of a collapsing bridge that was under construction. The crash threw the engine and a few carriages aside. Four women, including a Pole, and two men died on the spot, and another man, of Ukrainian ethnicity, died later in a hospital. Of those injured 33 were... [read full story]                    

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