Sharjah24 – AFP: One person died and a dozen were injured when a train derailed Monday outside of Vienna, according to rescue services.
Rescuers rushed to the accident at Muenchendorf, just south of Vienna, according to Andreas Zenker of the Red Cross of Lower Austria.
"Serious train accident at Muenchendorf," the emergency services of Lower Austria wrote on Facebook.
"According to initial information, there are numerous injuries, several emergency helicopters and a large contingent of rescue workers are on duty at the moment!"
A spokesman for Austrian rail operator OeBB said the train in the accident did not belong to OeBB but to Raaberbahn, a private train company connecting Austria and neighbouring Hungary.
Deadly train accidents are rare in the Alpine EU member of nine million people.
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