London ¨C One person has died and dozens were injured, 11 of them ¡°very seriously,¡± after two passenger trains collided north of London on Friday, U.K. emergency services said.
The crash occurred late afternoon near Bedford, a town around 90 kilometers north of the U.K. capital, and involved two London-bound trains on the same track, according to East Midlands Railway (EMR).
¡°There was a moment of being flung into the chair in front, and then I saw smoke. People were crying, screaming, people were so scared and confused,¡± passenger Pete Knapp told the Press Association news agency.
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