Poland train collision kills at least 8

— Two trains collided Saturday evening in southern Poland, killing at least eight people and injuring about 50. The accident is among the country’s worst rail disasters in recent years, officials said.

The trains were traveling on the same track and collided head-on, Andrzej Pawlowski, a member of the board of the state railway company PKP, said in a televised interview.

Pawlowski said the train traveling south from Warsaw to Krakow should not have been on the track. The other train was headed to Warsaw from the eastern city of Przemysl.

It was not immediately clear how the southbound train ended up on the wrong track.

Polish television broadcast images of twisted train cars that had derailed.

Dozens of rescue workers, ambulances and helicopters were deployed to the scene.