In a collision between TGV and TER injured Forty

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TGV connects Paris to Tarbes hit TER. Two injured were evacuated by helicopter to a hospital in the region. The concern that incident catenary because ITV

, Collision at 5:30 clock in regional Lescar (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) between the TGV fast train and forty were injured, four seriously, according to the latest published by the AFP report.

"TER collision between Pau and Dax and carry 60 passengers crashed into the back of the TGV Paris-Tarbes carry 178 passengers," said a spokesman for the prefecture. TGV traveling at 30 km / h says the west, and the speed of the TER is not yet known. But the shock is "very violent," according to a local newspaper as "a distorted manner." Travelers TGV, which is a few pictures of the crisis on Twitter.

75 firefighters, 12 vehicles and a helicopter were sent to the scene Samu. Prefecture said, first, that the review, 17 people injured, three of them found difficult. This has been revised upwards a few dozen minutes later, 40 people were injured, four seriously. Police said two of the injured were evacuated by helicopter to a hospital in the region. ORSEC the "numerous victims" rocketed plan in the air, said the prefecture.

School aid station was placed near the scene of the collision and "have minor injuries to him as" the mayor said ITV Denguin, often near the site of the tragedy. The crisis has put into place. SNCF opened a telephone line (...) Read more on Figaro.fr

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