Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.
Video footage showed that the engine of the train was on fire, and railway officials said the bus was badly damaged in the crash and broken into two parts.He said the dead were not immediately identified. The stranded passengers aboard the stricken train were being transported by buses to the town of Sturovo on the Hungarian border, ZSSK said.The injured were transported to hospitals in nearby towns and cities because the local one was closed on Thursday after some parts of it were flooded after a heavy rain overnight.
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