One person was killed and several others injured in Denmark on Friday in a collision between a train and a farm vehicle, police said. The accident happened near Bjerndrup, in the southwest of the country and about 15 kilometers from the German border.
Police did not give details on the seriousness of the injuries, but did say that two people had been flown from the scene by helicopter. The national rail agency Banedanmark wrote on X that the collision occurred at a railway crossing.
The crossing was not marked and did not have a barrier, police spokesman Gert Bisgaard told journalists. According to local media, at least two of the train carriages were derailed. The train was on the line between the capital Copenhagen and Sonderborg, some 300 kilometres (200 miles) away.
The DSB rail operator responsible for the train said that around 95 people were aboard the train, including 25 pupils from a school in Sonderborg. "None of the pupils have been seriously injured," said a statement from the town officials. "But they are shocked, of course."
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