Hungary train-car crash kills three Koreans

Three Koreans died after a train hit their car in northern Hungary. The train in the photo is unrelated to the story. Gettyimagesbank

By Jung Min-ho

Three Koreans were killed when a train struck their car in northern Hungary.

According to Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and local police, the accident happened at a rail crossing at the Danube Bend, a tourist spot near the Danube River close to Kismaros, 60 kilometers north of Budapest, Wednesday evening (local time).

Police said the driver of the car ignored a red light and drove onto the track before the collision.

“The Bathory Eurocity express train from Warsaw to the Western Railway Station of Budapest collided with a car between Kismaros and Nagymaros at a railroad crossing with a light barrier,” police said.

No one on the train was injured.

The tragedy came less than three months after 25 Korean tourists died in a boat crash on the river in Budapest, in the worst disaster on the river in more than half a century.

Local police are still searching for one missing person.