Forty-four people have been injured in a head-on train collision between in western Switzerland.
Four of those injured were seriously hurt and one person has yet to be recovered from the wreckage, police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard said.
The crash happened on a regional line about 50 km southwest of the capital, Bern.
![A view of the scene where two Swiss regional trains collided head on near Granges-Pres-Marnand near Payerne in western Switzerland. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters.](https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/24ZOJI5E3EGQQVXRRZKO7OUCDA.jpg?auth=80724d9292939e50b2b12b5400575bf2ea7cb9e078bebcdbe310a6e51a16ea59&width=800&height=450)
Photographs showed the two regional trains locked together but still on the tracks.