8 killed as train and bus collide in Poland

Eight people were killed and two wounded when a train hit a minibus on a level crossing in central Poland this morning, Polish news channel TVN24 reported. The minibus carrying ten people, eight women and two men, drove onto an unguarded crossing near the city of Lodz and was driven 30m down the tracks by the oncoming train, a local policeman told the broadcaster. “The situation is under control now but the impact was so strong that we cannot even recognise the make of the car,” the policeman said. “None of the train passengers were hurt,” he added. It was the second accident in Poland involving a train this year. In March, 16 people died and 60 were injured in a head-on collision between two trains.