| Date of Death | 15/02/2010 |
| Cause of Death | Train Crash |
| Location | Belgian |
| Visitors | 383 |
| Creator | Anne MGA |
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Passengers have spent hours trapped inside wrecked carriages, after two commuter trains collided head-on in Belgium. At least twenty dead
Commuters faced freezing temperatures as rescuers attempted to free them from the mangled carriages.
"The first two carriages were completely squashed," said 37-year-old Hambaoui Mounir. "I was in the carriage right behind. The train fell to one side, people fell over each other, there was no air and women and children were screaming."
The injured were taken to 14 separate hospitals in and around Brussels.
The trains collided in snowy conditions at the village of Buizingen, near Halle, which is 15km southwest of the Belgium capital. The cause of the crash is not known, but Provincial Governor Lodewijk De Witte told a news conference that one of the trains had ran a red light.
Train operator SNCB said it was too early to speculate about the cause of the accident. It said 250 to 300 people were travelling in the two trains at the time.
Prime Minister Yves Leterme, breaking short a visit to the Balkans, said he was stunned by the accident, coming just less than three weeks after a gas explosion at a residential block in Liege that killed 14 people.
A wide range of train services, including high-speed services from Brussels to Paris and the Eurostar from Brussels to Britain via the Channel Tunnel, were suspended on Monday.
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