Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Samuel Osborne

Switzerland train crash: Around 30 casualties after two trains collide in Andermatt

Around 30 people have been injured after two trains collided in a station in central Switzerland.

The accident happened in Andermatt, a mountain town in the canton of Uri.

A Swiss railway operator says 27 people were injured during a re-routing manoeuvre. 

Police and medical teams were rushed to the scene of the accident, which involved a locomotive and five rail cars with about 100 passengers on board. 

The locomotive was supposed to move from the back of the train to the front on a parallel track, but instead crashed into the back of the train. 

Jan Baerwalde, of train service operator Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, said authorities were investigating the cause of the crash.

Sonja Aschwanden, of the Uri cantonal police, said she did not have any immediate information about the type of injuries or material damage.

None of the injuries are life-threatening, police for the Swiss canton of Uri said in a statement.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.