TRAIN CRASH IN SWISS, 35 INJURED.

News reaching us  indicates that about 35 passengers have been injured, five of them seriously, after two trains collided head-on just outside a station in western Switzerland.

Pictures of the scene showed the two trains still on the tracks with the cabs crumpled into each other. Broken glass lay on the floor of the carriages.

Public TV station SRF quoted state police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard as saying that one person had yet to be recovered from the wreckage.

News website 20min.ch quoted Patricia Claivaz of the Swiss rail company CFF as saying the trapped man, a driver of one of the trains, had been located. It was unclear if he was alive.

Several ambulances, fire engines and a helicopter were on the scene of the crash at Granges-pres-Marnand in the Vaud canton, around 31 miles southwest of the capital, Bern.

Police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said that rescue operations were still under way.

The head-on collision happened around 100m from a station at 7pm (local time) when one train bound for Lausanne left the station as another, travelling from Lausanne, arrived.

Earlier, Swiss media reported 44 people had been hurt in the accident.

Switzerland's rail system is considered among the safest in the world, but three years ago the Glacier Express tourist train derailed in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42.

Seventy-nine people were killed in a train crash in Spain last Thursday, one of the worst in decades.