Prague-to-Budapest Train Collides With Bus in Slovakia, Killing 7 People and Injuring 5

Firefighters vehicles and emergency vehicles on the site of the collision of a bus with a train near the town of Nove Zamky, Slovakia, on June 27, 2024. Henrich Misovic/TASR via AP

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—A train traveling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a local bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least seven people dead and five injured, officials said.

Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.