11 injured in Swiss tourist train crash

Eleven people were injured when a tourist train collided with a delivery van in the Swiss Alps today, derailing three of its carriages, police said.
"Forty-one people were in the train. Two were moderately injured and nine others were slightly injured," police said in a statement.
The tourist train which winds its way through Valais's snowy mountains, slammed into the van as it was driving across a crossing near the village of Moerel.
Neither the driver of the van nor the train conductor was injured in the accident, police said.
It was not the first accident involving a tourist train in the region.

In July 2010, a 64-year-old Japanese woman died and dozens were injured in the derailing of Valais's Glacier Express, which runs between Zermatt and St. Moritz, a few kilometres from the site of today's collision.