PARIS — At least 19 people were injured on Thursday evening after a freight train and a coach collided near the Channel Tunnel in northern France, the local prefect’s office said.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, the prefecture said in a statement, adding that ambulances, a helicopter and police were at the scene.
The incident took place in Coquelles, near the entrance of the freight tunnel linking France to Britain.
Authorities did not immediately provided more details regarding how the accident happened, the identities of the victims or the nature of their injuries, other than saying that the coach driver was among those hurt.
(Reporting by Manuel Ausloos, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Makini Brice and Inti Landauro; writing by John Irish; Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
