January 14th, 2007, 16:29
Bangkok (dpa) - Three railway workers were killed and 73 people were injured when a passenger train crashed into another train before dawn Sunday in seaside resort of Hua Hin, authorities said.
The accident occurred before dawn when a Bangkok-bound train took the wrong track and hit an oncoming train head-on just outside the station in Hua Hin, said Wichai Choochumporn, a rail official.
All three victims were railroad employees, according to officials at Hua Hin Hospital, one of three facilities that provided treatment.
State Railway Authority officials told local media they were investigating what caused the crash in the popular resort town on the Gulf of Thailand.
Eight people were seriously injured including three railway employees. The other 65 people injured were treated and released from hospital within a few hours.
Among the injured passengers were an Italian man and a German woman, both of whom were treated for minor injuries.
The crash at about 2:30 a.m. disrupted train travel until 7 a.m.
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By German Press Agency / Bangkok Post
The accident occurred before dawn when a Bangkok-bound train took the wrong track and hit an oncoming train head-on just outside the station in Hua Hin, said Wichai Choochumporn, a rail official.
All three victims were railroad employees, according to officials at Hua Hin Hospital, one of three facilities that provided treatment.
State Railway Authority officials told local media they were investigating what caused the crash in the popular resort town on the Gulf of Thailand.
Eight people were seriously injured including three railway employees. The other 65 people injured were treated and released from hospital within a few hours.
Among the injured passengers were an Italian man and a German woman, both of whom were treated for minor injuries.
The crash at about 2:30 a.m. disrupted train travel until 7 a.m.
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By German Press Agency / Bangkok Post