The four people who died in a collision between a passenger train and a freight train in the Czech town of Pardubice on Wednesday night were Slovak and Ukrainian, reports Reuters, citing emergency services and government authorities.
The accident left three people seriously injured and at least 20 with minor injuries, according to Interior Minister Vít Rakušan.
The Slovak and Ukrainian foreign ministries revealed that the victims were two Slovak women and two Ukrainian women.
The train, operated by private service Regiojet, was traveling from Prague to Kosice, in eastern Slovakia, and then to the Ukrainian town of Chop.
The passenger train, which was carrying more than 300 people, failed to stop at a red traffic light, said the Railway Safety Inspection Office. The investigation will now determine whether the cause was human error or a technical fault.
It should be noted that Pardubice was the scene of the worst rail accident in the country's history in 1960, when 118 people died and around a hundred were injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains north of the city.
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