At least 33 people were killed when a train hit a German tourist coach at a lakeside holiday resort in central Hungary this morning.
Most of the dead and injured were inside part of the double-decker bus that was dragged at least 150 metres after the passenger train rammed the vehicle at a level crossing at Siofok, on the shores of Lake Balaton, and set it on fire.
The Hungarian railway authorities said the German bus had gone through a red light at the railroad crossing on Lake Balaton, a popular resort 60 miles southwest of Budapest.
There were 29 dead at the scene and four people have since died in hospital.
Eight people on the bus were injured but no casualties were reported among passengers on the train, which was travelling between Budapest and Nagykanizsa to the south, except for the train driver who suffered light injuries.
German television NTV said the tourists had come from the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony in northern and central Germany.