One dead, several injured in Dutch passenger train accident

Deutsche Welle :
One person has been reported dead and several “seriously injured” on Tuesday after a passenger train derailed in a collision with construction equipment on a track roughly eight kilometers north of The Hague in southern Netherlands, Dutch emergency services said.
Emergency services were at the scene in the town of Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
Between 50 and 60 people were aboard the double-decker night train from the city of Leiden, 30 of them were injured.
“There was a heavy thud, windows shattered,” said one passenger who was able to escape.
Most people were able to exit the train themselves, eventually climbing to safety on a makeshift bridge across a deep drainage ditch between the tracks and an adjacent embankment.
“We don’t understand how this could have happened,” said John Voppen, CEO of ProRail, the Netherlands’ government rail maintenance organization.