Seven Die in Slovakia Train-Bus Collision

Emergency personnel work at the site of a train crash with a bus near Nove Zamky, Slovakia, June 27, 2024. Robert Novak/Handout via REUTERS
Emergency personnel work at the site of a train crash with a bus near Nove Zamky, Slovakia, June 27, 2024. Robert Novak/Handout via REUTERS
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Seven Die in Slovakia Train-Bus Collision

Emergency personnel work at the site of a train crash with a bus near Nove Zamky, Slovakia, June 27, 2024. Robert Novak/Handout via REUTERS
Emergency personnel work at the site of a train crash with a bus near Nove Zamky, Slovakia, June 27, 2024. Robert Novak/Handout via REUTERS

Seven people died and five others were injured when a train collided with a bus at a crossing in Slovakia on Thursday evening, emergency services said.

The collision occurred near Nove Zamky, 110 km east of the capital Bratislava, as the international train travelled from Prague to Budapest, state railway company ZSSK said.

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

Slovak and Czech media reported that none of the victims were on the train.

Interior Minister Matus Sutai Estok visited the scene of the accident.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.



Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to Present ‘Victory Plan’ at Ramstein Meeting

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to address the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2024. (Reuters)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to address the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2024. (Reuters)
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to Present ‘Victory Plan’ at Ramstein Meeting

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to address the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2024. (Reuters)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to address the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2024. (Reuters)

Ukraine will present its "victory plan" at a regular meeting of its allies at Ramstein in Germany on October 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a post on Telegram on Saturday.

"We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war," he wrote.

Ukraine, which has been fending off an invasion from much larger neighbor Russia for nearly 1,000 days, has in recent months teased a plan to end the war.

The details have not been made public, but Zelenskiy presented it to US President Joe Biden, as well as both major candidates running in the country's presidential election, when he visited Washington last month.

The US State Department spokesman said the plan contained "a number of productive steps" which the US would engage with Ukraine on.

However, the Wall Street Journal newspaper cited anonymous US officials as saying that the plan was a repackaged request for more weapons and a lifting of restrictions on the use of long-range missiles, and lacked a comprehensive strategy.