Netherlands train crash: 1 equipment operator killed, at least 30 injured

One person was killed and at least 30 were injured when a passenger train carrying at least 50 people derailed after hitting a construction crane in the Netherlands early on Tuesday, officials said.

Rescue teams ferried away the injured in the pre-dawn darkness at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague. Nineteen people were taken to the hospital. Others were being treated on the spot, the emergency services said.

Dutch Railways official Carola Belderbos said the train collided with the crane, and the injured included the driver and two conductors.

Emergency services said that the front carriage of the night train from Leiden to The Hague then derailed and ploughed into a field. The second carriage was on its side and a fire broke out in the rear carriage but was extinguished.

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