Poland Train collision: Fourteen people were confirmed dead and sixty injured in Poland train collision. Two trains which collided head-on at 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) in Szczekociny, southern Poland, late Saturday as rescue workers raced overnight to pull passengers from the wreckage.
Sixty people were hospitalised with about half reported to be in a serious condition, rescue officials said. Some 350 passengers were travelling on board two trains which collided head-on at 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) as they were travelling on the same track, One train was en route to the southern city of Krakow from the capital Warsaw, while the other was travelling to the capital from the south-eastern city of Przemysl.
Saturday's accident is the worst rail catastrophe in Poland since 1990, when 16 people were killed in a collision between two trains in the Warsaw suburb of Ursus.The country's most deadly train wreck occurred in 1980 in Otoczyn, near the northern city of Torun when 67 people died and 62 were injured in a collision between a passenger and a freight train.
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