VIENNA, Austria — Faulty brakes were to blame for a collision of two freight trains south of Vienna that killed six people and injured 14 others, officials said Wednesday.
Three of the dead were Hungarian citizens, two were Yugoslav and one was believed to be a Turkish national, said police, a day after the accident. Officials on Tuesday had said seven people were killed, reports a wire service.
The accident occurred on a stretch of track about 400 yards outside the train station in the village of Wampersdorf, some 22 miles south of Vienna, near the city of Baden.
One of the trains was transporting tractor trailer trucks from Wels, about 130 miles west of Baden, to the Hungarian city of Sopron, just south of the Austrian border, said railway officials. Most of the dead and injured were Hungarian truck drivers riding in a separate carriage just behind the engine of the train pulling their vehicles.
The train’s faulty brakes meant the engineer was unable to stop it in the Wampersdorf station and led to the collision with another freight train, said Mathias Reichhold, the federal government minister responsible for rail traffic.