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Train crash in Hungary kills one, injures two
06 Feb 2007 19:15:21 GMT
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BUDAPEST, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A passenger train crashed into a freight train near the western Hungarian town of Komarom on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two, a spokeswoman for Komarom police said.

"The driver of the passenger train died and there are two light injuries," the spokeswoman told Reuters.

She said part of the freight train was derailed by the collision, but the carriages of the passenger train stayed on the tracks.


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