(15 Feb 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Buizingen train station
2. Zoom in of rescue workers with injured train passenger
3. Injured train passenger being carried to ambulance
4. Various of injured train passenger being carried on stretcher
5. Wide of train station
STORYLINE
Two commuter trains collided head-on at rush hour in a Brussels suburb on Monday, killing as many as 25 people, Belgian rail officials said. Other officials said the death toll was lower.
Belgian National Railways told the VRT radio network that 25 people had died.
The suburb”s mayor said the death toll was 20, while Lodewijk De Witte, governor of the province of Flemish Brabant, told VRT that 10 people were killed.
The trains collided in light snow just outside of the station at Buizingen around 8:30 a.m. (0730GMT).
There was no immediate word on the number of injured.
AP Television images showed rescue workers taking away some of the injured from the station.
Officials said the seriously hurt were taken to hospitals and the lightly injured were moved to a Buizingen sports complex.
The force of the collision smashed one train deep into the front of the other, peeling back the metal sides.
The trains tipped high into the air and broke overhead power lines, causing massive damage.
Eurostar reported on its Web site that its high-speed trains had suspended service in and out of Brussels and could remain shut down all day.
The international high-speed network Thalys, which links major cities in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, temporarily halted all traffic because its trains use the same rails as commuter lines near Hal, officials said.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.
It was the most serious Belgian train accident since March 28, 2001, when eight people died when a crowded train ploughed into an empty train driving on the wrong tracks.
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