Passenger train derails in Netherlands, 30 injured

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.

Report informs via foreign media that 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.