Reports say cargo from a freight train hit a passenger train going the other waySix people have died in a train accident in storm-force winds on the Great Belt bridge in Denmark, police have said. Authorities said the accident happened when an express train on the bridge braked suddenly after being hit apparently by flying cargo from a freight train travelling in the opposite direction. Television footage showed one side of front of the passenger train had been ripped open. Police said one of the freight train’s tarpaulins had been torn off and one possibility was that escaping cargo had hit the passenger train, causing “considerable damage”. The 11-mile (18km) Great Belt bridge, hailed as a major engineering achievement when it opened fully in 1998, is part of the complex bridge-and-tunnel, fixed-link system that connects Denmark and Sweden to Germany.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2019 09:25 UTC