Channel News Asia: Five women and three men died in Wednesday’s train accident on a bridge linking Denmark’s two main islands, police said on Thursday (Jan 3), raising the toll from six.
Police said they had identified four of the bodies but bad weather and severe damage to the train made an initial investigation difficult.
“Our investigation shows that there was a further two killed in the train,” the spokesman said.
The train with 131 passengers on board was heading towards the capital, Copenhagen, when it hit debris from a freight train.
The passenger train braked suddenly, survivors said.
Investigators said on Wednesday the passenger train appeared to have struck an empty truck trailer that had blown off a cargo train travelling in the opposite direction on a different track.
They added that it was too early to know why or how the trailer fell off.
“All I can say is that there is a trailer missing on the cargo train and there’s a trailer involved in the accident,” said one of the investigators.
Sixteen others were hurt, but none of them suffered life-threatening injuries.
Police said the drivers of both trains were being questioned and video surveillance footage of the bridge was being examined to determine the cause of the accident.
Divers were also searching the waters under the bridge for debris that might provide clues.
Passenger Heidi Langberg Zumbusch had just boarded the train and taken her seat when the accident happened.
“There was a loud crash and the windows started smashing onto our heads. We went flying down onto the floor, and then the train stopped,” she told DR.
“We were lucky. The people in the carriage in front of us were not so lucky,” she said, adding that her fellow passengers told her they saw the side of that carriage had been ripped off.
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