Man dies in train crash on Prague-Olomouc route

One man has died after two freight trains crashed on the route from Prague to Olomouc in the early hours of Saturday morning. The head of the railway inspectorate, Jan Kučera, said that a train driver sustained fatal injuries when his train crashed into the back of another at around 03:00 CET. Mr Kučera could not yet say whether the accident had been caused by human error or technical fault, nor could he tell if the first train was moving when the second crashed into it. The stretch of track is still out of service, and the damage caused by the crash is thought to run into millions of crowns.