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There were speculations that they may be Poles. Around 15:00, relatives identified one of them as a 30-year-old woman from Olomouc, north Moravia, said local police spokeswoman Mirka Salkova Michalkova. Kuzel said the police later gained indications that helped them identify the last unidentified victim. However, the identity would be definitively reliable only after the DNA test whose result may be known on Sunday, he said. In belief that the unknown women may come from Poland, the Czech police have sent photographs of the women's things to the Polish police in an effort to speed up their identification. The accident of an international express train going from Cracow to Prague claimed seven victims and about seventy people were injured. The train crashed into a part of a collapsing bridge that was under construction. Four women and two men died on the spot, and another man, of Ukrainian ethnicity, died later in a hospital. Apart from the woman from Olomouc, identified today, and the women whose identity the police believe to know, the dead include a Czech woman aged 35-40, a Polish woman aged 23, and two Czech men, aged 19 and under 30. Out of the 37 people from the train who ended up in hospital with injuries, four were released today. According to the information from the six north Moravian hospitals involved, the state of some patients remain serious, while others might be released on Sunday. As of Monday morning, the Czech police will provide information about the handing over of luggage to the passengers on the phone line 974 735 111, Salkova Michalkova said. All the day long today, the police, firefighters and the Railway Company (CD) continued to investigate the tragical accident and liquidate its aftermath. The removal of the train wreckage, including the derailed engine and a few carriages, will continue on Sunday, CD spokesman Ondrej Kubala told CTK. The operation along the otherwise busy railway could be resumed on Monday morning at the earliest, he said. A 20-member police team are investigating the accident. Salkova Michalkova said the police investigate the crime as the endangering of the safety of the public. They are questioning the passengers and gathering the technical documents from construction firms and authorities. "The investigators have already questioned representatives of the Boegl and Krysl company, a supplier of part of the bridge construction works in Studenka, and the main construction company - ODS-Transport Constructions Ostrava," Salkova Michalkova said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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