Category: Greater Region
Zoufftgen train accident memorial erected
03/12/2009, by Adam Walder
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LUXEMBOURG/FRANCE - More than 3 years after Luxembourg's worst train crash, a memorial was in inaugurated on Wednesday by Luxembourg ministers, Head of CFL and SNCF - French railways.
It was the worst train accident in the history of Luxembourg railways. On 11th October 2006 a head-on on collision between two trains at Zoufftgen near Dudelange occurred. Six people were killed, sixteen others were injured. More than three years after the incident, trials relating to the crash are still open.
This Wednesday a memorial took place at the site of the accident. Participating at the ceremony was minister of Luxembourg ministers Claude Wiseler and Jeannot Waringo, as well as president of the CFL Board of Directors, and CFL's Director General Lex Kremer.
The newly inaugurated memorial is a column and a marble stone - an idea of the heads of the French railway SNCF.
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