PRAGUE — A wire service reports that ten U.S. soldiers were injured, three seriously, when a military train transporting equipment collided with a local freight train in the western Czech Republic, police said on Friday.
A Czech Railways spokesman said the accident occurred just before 11 p.m. EDT and that the driver of the Czech freight train was killed in the crash, near the spa town of Karlovy Vary some 60 miles west of Prague.
“Ten American soldiers were injured and from those, three were hurt seriously,” he said. He gave no further details.
He gave no cause for the accident and said an investigation was under way.