As a result of the accident four people died. Among the dead, two children.

According to the Independent, the Ministry of the Interior of France confirmed the death of children. Another seven people were seriously injured, and 12 were slightly injured.

According to police the train followed from the city of Perpignan to the city of Villefranche de Conflans in the south-east of France. In turn, Transport Minister Elizabeth Bourne in her Twitter wrote, all public services are mobilized and she is now being sent to the scene of the accident.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in early December in Germany, at least 50 people were injured as a result of a collision of trains. Passenger and freight trains collided in the town of Merbusch near Dusseldorf. It is estimated that at the time of the accident there were 150 people on the train.