Five injured in Switzerland passenger train collision

Train derailed after commuter and long-distance services collided near Zurich

Police and fire services  at the site of a train accident in Rafz, canton Zurich, Switzerland. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA
Police and fire services at the site of a train accident in Rafz, canton Zurich, Switzerland. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA

Five people have been injured after two trains collided in northern Switzerland.

The collision between a commuter train and a long-distance train happened in Rafz, north of Zurich near the German border.

One of the trains then derailed, police said. Five people were injured, one of them seriously.

Photos from the scene showed carriages that had been knocked off the tracks, but not overturned. Witnesses said the faster train hit the commuter train from behind.

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