At least 60 people were injured, up to 20 of them seriously, after two trains collided head-on Saturday just outside Amsterdam, Dutch transport police said.
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| Emergency workers evacuate an injured passenger after two trains collided between the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk and Amsterdam-Centraal stations |
"There are 60 people injured -- some 15 to 20 badly," police spokesman Ed Kraszewski told AFP, after the crash near Sloterdijkin the western suburbs of Amsterdam.
The accident happened at around 6.30 pm (1630 GMT) when a local train leaving Amsterdam hit a high-speed train, Dutch rail network spokeswoman Babet Verstappen told AFP.
Emergency personnel were treating the wounded at the scene, on a bridge between Sloterdijk and Amsterdam Central Station,Verstappen added.
"The badly-injured are being taken to hospitals, while those with slight injuries were taken to a hotel in Amsterdam," she said.
Dutch news agency ANP reported many of the injured suffered from broken bones and bruising.
Passengers on the social network Twitter said they were "smashed against the trains' frames" or "thrown from their seats", it added.
The crash has disrupted rail traffic to Amsterdam Central station, as well as to Schiphol airport, Verstappen said.
The Netherlands' worst train disaster happened on January 8, 1962, when two passenger trains smashed into one another at Harmelen, near the central Dutch city of Utrecht, killing 93 and injuring 52 others.
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