(Reuters) -Several people were ‘seriously injured’ and a fire broke out after a passenger train carrying at least 50 people derailed following a collision with a freight train in the Netherlands, local emergency services said early on Tuesday.
The front carriage of the passenger train derailed and a fire broke out in the rear carriage, ANP news agency said.
Rescue teams were at the scene in the town of Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, a notice from the local emergency services said.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch, Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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