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HIBAPRESS – Agencies
French media reported on Tuesday that a high-speed train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed after colliding with a truck in northern France.
TF1 station quoted initial information from the police stating that the driver of the "TGV" train died, while 27 passengers were injured. French Transport Minister, Philippe Tabarot, stated that he would travel to the accident site between the towns of Béthune and Lens in the Pas-de-Calais region, with the head of the railways, Jean Castex. The accident occurred at a railway crossing in the town of Noeux-les-Mines, outside the French high-speed train network.
