Poland’s government insisted yesterday that rail travel is safe in the country despite a train collision on Saturday that killed 16 people.

Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland, leaving 16 people dead and 58 injured in the country’s worst train disaster in more than 20 years.

Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland, killing at least 15 people and injuring 54, in one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years.