At least 4 dead & 23 injured as high-speed passenger train carrying 300 ploughs into freight cars in Czech Republic

FOUR people have died and 23 more are injured following a horrific train collision in the Czech Republic.

A passenger train carrying 300 people smashed head-on with a freight train late on Wednesday night outside Prague.

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The wreck of the RegioJet passenger train that crashed on Wednesday night[/caption]

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Four people died and 23 more were injured[/caption]

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Firefighters working in the wreckage late Wednesday night[/caption]

Images from the scene showed the yellow RegioJet train crumpled on the tracks of a main railway route.

Hordes of emergency services were gathered at the scene in Pardubice, a city 100km east of the capital.

The track serves as the Czech Republic’s main railway line, connecting Slovakia, among other countries with the capital

Czech minister Vit Rakusan said none of the injured are in a life-threatening condition.

But three of the dozens hurt did suffer more serious injuries, Reuters reports.

The four dead have yet to be identified.

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