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Death Toll Rises As New Details Emerge In Danish Train Accident

Investigators believe the passenger train hit an empty truck trailer that was being carried on a freight train going in the opposite direction.
Investigators believe part of a freight train caused a fatal passenger train accident in Denmark on Wednesday. Here, the freight train is seen at the scene of the calamity on the Great Belt Bridge.

Two more people have died as a result of Wednesday's train accident on a bridge in central Denmark, police say, raising the death toll to eight. Investigators believe the passenger train hit an empty truck trailer from a freight train going in the opposite direction.

Five women. The death toll had , but police say they found two more bodies as they explored the train. The number of people injured remains at 16.

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