Police searching for train-crash victim

The police are searching for the body of a possible train-crash victim near the town of Františkovy Lázně. The driver of a train which passed through the town late on Monday reported he had glimpsed the figure of a man on the track walking towards the oncoming train. The driver failed to break in time and said he felt a collision with an unspecified object but when the train came to a halt there was nothing on the tracks. The police are investigating the incident.