ONE PERSON DEAD AND 40 INJURED AS SWISS TRAIN DERAILS
Baku, July 23 (AZERTAC). At least one person has been killed and more than 40 people injured in an alpine tourist train derailment in Switzerland, police say.
The accident occurred near a bridge between the villages of Lax and Fiesch in the canton of Valais, according to BBC.
Most of the passengers were likely to have been tourists, the police said. Swiss media reported that most of the injured were Japanese.
Three carriages drove off the tracks and two tipped over, reports said.
The Glacier Express train operates on a panoramic route between Zermatt and St Moritz. In more than seven hours the train travels over 291 bridges and through 91 tunnels.
The train service is also known as "the slowest express train in the world".
Most of the tourists using the train come from Germany, Japan and India.
The cause of the accident was not yet known, police said.
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