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Croatia declares day of mourning for train crash victims

Sun, Jul 26 2009 12:21 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Croatia declares day of mourning for train crash victims

An army rescue helicopter flies over a derailed passenger train near the Croatian Adriatic port of Split, July 24 2009.

 


Croatia will have a day of national mourning on July 27 2009 in memory of the six people who died on July 24 in a train crash near the coastal city of Split.
 
The dead included four Croatian citizen, a Spanish and French citizen, Croatia’s HRT television said, quoted by Bulgarian news agency Focus.
 
The more than 55 people injured included three French nationals, two Australians and one citizen each from the UK, Sweden, Serbia, Spain, Pakistan and Slovenia.
 
Croatian news website Javno quoted transport minister Bozidar Kalmeta as saying that the cause of the crash of the high-speed train was not yet known and the train driver "remembers nothing, he doesn’t know how the accident happened, does not even know how he got out of the train and is in a state of shock".
 
Kalmeta offered to resign but prime minister Jadranka Kosor refused to accept the resignation.
 
A forensic expert has been warning for several years now of the danger of tilting trains, Javno said.
 
Euronews said that the train had been travelling between Split and the Croatian capital of Zagreb when it derailed. The train was carrying about 90 passengers when it crashed about 20km from Split. It was heading to the coast on a route often used by holidaymakers.
 

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