Five dead as train collides with bus in Slovakia

Firefighters’ vehicles and emergency vehicles on the site of the collision of a bus with a train near the town of Nove Zamky, Slovakia (Henrich Misovic/TASR via AP)

A train travelling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least five people dead and five injured, officials said.

More than 100 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm local time in the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.