At least one person was killed and 30 injured, many seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50 people derailed in the Netherlands early Tuesday after hitting construction equipment on the track, Dutch emergency services said. Rescue teams were seen ferrying away the injured in pre-dawn darkness at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague. The front carriage of the night train from Leiden city to The Hague derailed and plowed into a field after the accident, ANP news agency said. Earlier reports said the passenger train had collided with a freight train. “This is an incredibly tragic accident,” Voorschoten Mayor Nadine Stemerdink said.
