On Friday at about 10:30 a.m. in the northeastern Studenka County an express train hit a collapsed bridge in the Czech Republic. The crash killed at least ten people and injured nearly 100 others. The train was travelling from Krakow, Poland to Prague.

Miroslava Michalkova-Salkova, police spokesperson, said that it was a horrible disaster.” According to information to hand, there are at least 10 dead."

 "All the rescue services have been mobilized," Michalkova-Salkova added.

The train was travelling at about 140km per hour (87 miles) when it crashed into a road bridge that had collapsed on to the track. Jan Kucera, a Czech railways spokesman, said that "It probably hit part of a motorway bridge under construction which fell on to the track."

He added that there was a lot of damage as the locomotive together with three passenger carriages were derailed. It seems that the bridge had fallen on to the carriages of the train as it was passing underneath it.

There were about 400 passengers aboard, many of them going to Pardubice music festival. 16 fire brigades and 30 vehicles arrived to the scene, together with ambulances and helicopters. They tried to get the injured people to the hospital and the firefighters helped in removing the victims from the train.

As a reader told the BBC, maybe it would have been fewer dead and injured people if it weren’t the holiday period.