At least five killed in French train crash

Rescue workers worked through the night to free bodies from the crumpled wreckage of a passenger train that collided head-on with a freight train near France’s north-eastern border with Luxembourg, killing at least five people.

At least five killed in French train crash

Rescue workers worked through the night to free bodies from the crumpled wreckage of a passenger train that collided head-on with a freight train near France’s north-eastern border with Luxembourg, killing at least five people.

The head-on impact just before noon yesterday lifted one of the passenger train’s cars on top of the other, leaving a pile of tangled metal on the tracks at Zoufftgen, about one mile south of the border.

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