Foreign Ministry has no indication Czech nationals may have been among victims of tragic train-bus collision

The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has no information indicating that Czech nationals were among the victims of Thursday’s tragic rail accident in southern Slovakia, when a Eurocity train traveling from Prague to Budapest collided with a local bus. The bus was torn into two and both the engine and the bus caught fire. Seven people died in the accident and several more are reported injured. According to the Slovak authorities nobody on the train was killed or injured. The Czech Foreign Ministry said it had no information about Czechs missing in Slovakia, but would remain in contact with the authorities regarding developments, since the seven victims had not yet been identified.