An official with the Czech Rail authority, Ondrej Kubala, says the crash occurred when one of the trains went through a red light and left the station ahead of schedule at about 25 mph (40 kph). It then collided head on with an arriving train, which slammed on its breaks just before the crash.
The national CKT news agency says at least 43 people were injured, three of them severely.
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