A ‘number of people’ injured after UK train crash, police say
![<i>Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images</i><br/>Police at the scene of the train collision on November 1](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2021/11/hypatia-h_9392f8991d55f3572af30ce7809973ab-h_0ea87800c4db497757da6568d22c0bbb-300-scaled.jpg)
Police at the scene of the train collision on November 1
By Niamh Kennedy, CNN
A “number of people” have been left injured from a train collision at a tunnel near Salisbury, England, according to the British Transport Police (BTP).
“Thankfully no one has died,” the BTP tweeted shortly after 9:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. EDT) Sunday.
Officers are continuing to respond to the incident at the Fisherton Tunnel, the agency added.
Earlier Sunday, BTP officers had been called to assist, “following reports a train derailed.”
A tweet from the Wiltshire Police also said police officers were responding with fire and ambulance service “at the scene of a train crash involving two trains between Andover and Salisbury.”
A statement from Network Rail Wessex said the incident involved the 17:08 p.m. Great Western Railway service between Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads and the 17:20 p.m. South Western Railway service from London Waterloo to Honiton.
The line remains closed as emergency services carry out their work, Network Rail Wessex added.
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