FALLING CARGO HITS PASSENGER TRAIN, 6 KILLED

COPENHAGEN A Danish passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 16 others as it crossed a bridge linking the country’s islands, authorities said.

The accident was the worst in Denmark in more than 30 years.

The rail operator, Danish Railways, told Denmark’s TV2 that the victims were passengers on a train going from the city of Odense, on the island of Funen, to Copenhagen when the accident took place about 8 a.m.

Authorities said the trains were passing in opposite directions. Aerial TV footage showed one side of front of the passenger train had been ripped open. Photos showed that the freight train was carrying crates of beer, and the tarpaulin that covered it was torn in pieces.