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November 22, 2002



Death Toll in Austria Rail Crash Revised to Six

Austrian police on Wednesday put the death toll from a train crash near Vienna on Tuesday at six, revising original reports that seven people had been killed in the country's worst rail crash for 30 years.

Fourteen people were injured in a head-on collision between a goods train and a truck transporter, which occurred between the villages of Weigelsdorf and Wampersdorf, 30 km (18 miles) south of Vienna.

Doctors at a hospital in Vienna said two of the injured had life-threatening injuries.

The identities of the dead had not been officially confirmed but media reports said they comprised three Hungarians, two Yugoslavs and a Turk.

One of the trains was transporting lorries and around 20 drivers, the majority of whom were from Hungary.

Investigators were still trying to establish the cause of the crash.

(China Daily February 28, 2002)

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