COPENHAGEN—A Danish passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train Wednesday, an accident that killed six people and injured 16 others as it crossed a bridge linking the country’s islands, authorities said. A rescue worker at the site of a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge, Storebaeltsbroen, in Nyborg, Denmark, Wednesday. Photos showed that the freight train was carrying crates of beer, and the tarpaulin that covered the cargo train was torn in pieces. Flemming Jensen, the CEO of state-owned Danish Railways, said police and the Danish Accident Investigation Board were investigating the damages. Denmark’s worst train accident occurred in 1919, when an express train collided with a stopped train in Copenhagen due to a dispatcher error.

Source: thestar January 02, 2019 10:45 UTC