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Several badly hurt in Austrian train crash - police


    VIENNA (Reuters) - Several people were seriously injured in a collision between two passenger trains near the southeastern Austrian city of Graz on Wednesday morning, police said.

    Broadcaster ORF cited emergency services saying a train driver was trapped in the wreckage and nine people were hurt.

    A spokeswoman for train operator Steiermaerkische Landesbahnen said it was not immediately clear what caused the crash in a remote area.

    (Reporting by Michael Shields and Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Andrew Heavens)