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17 Taiwan tourists injured in train-bus crash in Switzerland

In this picture taken May 20, 2016 and provided by Bern police a damaged Austrian bus stands on the road after it crashed with a train at a railroad-crossing near Interlaken, Switzerland. Swiss police say at least 16 people were injured when a high-speed train crashed into a bus in Interlaken near Bern. Police said in a statement Saturday May 21, 2016 that the accident happened Friday night at a railway crossing. (KANTONSPOLIZEI BERN via AP) -MANDATORY CREDIT - NO SALES In this picture taken May 20, 2016 and provided by Bern police a damaged Austrian bus stands on the road after it crashed with a train at a railroad-crossing near Interlaken, Switzerland. Swiss police say at least 16 people were injured when a high-speed train crashed into a bus in Interlaken near Bern. Police said in a statement Saturday May 21, 2016 that the accident happened Friday night at a railway crossing. (KANTONSPOLIZEI BERN via AP) -MANDATORY CREDIT - NO SALES

By Associated Press May 21, 2016 1 min read

BERLIN (AP) – Seventeen tourists from Taiwan were injured when a German high-speed train collided with a tour bus in the Swiss lakeside town of Interlaken, Swiss police and a Taiwanese official said Saturday.

Police in the nearby Swiss capital of Bern said in a statement the accident happened Friday night at a railway crossing involving a bus registered in neighboring Austria. Police were investigating the cause of the accident.

Bern police spokesman Nicolas Kessler said none of the injured had sustained life-threatening injuries and most had already left a hospital.

A spokeswoman for the Taiwan mission in Geneva said Taiwanese diplomats were working to get details and reaching out to the tourists to provide translation and other consular services.

Taiwan’s CNA news agency reported that 12 people sustained minor injuries and another five were in critical condition.

Donatella Del Vecchio, a spokeswoman for the Swiss railway operator, said no one inside the train was injured and train services resumed after a brief interruption.