3 dead, dozens injured after passenger train hits freight train in Belgium

Three people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger train hit a freight train late Sunday night in Belgium.

The train was carrying "around 40 passengers" when it "crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track," the Belgian national railway company SNCB said in a statement. "The collision derailed two of the six carriages." A spokesman for Infrabel, the Belgian railroad infrastructure manager, said the passenger train was traveling at a high speed when it crashed.

The incident took place on the line between Namur and Liege in the eastern municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse. The district's mayor told the Belga news agency the impact was "very violent," and the death toll was a preliminary estimate.

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