44 hurt as Swiss trains collide

Forty-four people have been injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on train collision between two train in western Switzerland, police said tonight.

One person has yet to be recovered from the wreckage, public TV station SRF quotes Vaud canton (state) police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard as saying.

The crash happened on a regional line about 50 kilometres (31 miles) southwest of the capital, Bern.

Pictures on the website of local daily 24 Heures showed the two regional trains locked together but still on the tracks.

Last week, 79 people were killed in a high-speed derailment in Spain.