Up to 25 people were feared killed when two rush-hour passenger trains collided head on in Belgium today, railway officials said. The commuter trains collided at Buizingen, near Halle, around nine miles south-west of Brussels, at around 8.30am local time. The Belgian broadacaster VRT showed footage of firefighters carrying casualties from the wreckage of the two trains, which had concertinaed on impact. Pictures of the crash site posted on Twitter showed the front of the trains ended up suspended around 3 metres above the ground. The rail track operator Infrabel said the two trains had crashed head on. One train was travelling from Leuven to Braine-le-Comte. The second train was on its way from Quiévrain to Liège Nothing is reported about the causes of this train crash. ( from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/rail-crash-belgium-halle-brussels)
