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| French high-speed TGV train crashes near Denguin | |
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| Dozens of people have been injured in a train collision in southern France, according to media reports. | |
| A high-speed TGV train on the Pau-Bayonne line was transporting 178 people when it crashed into a regional TER train carrying 70 passengers. | |
| Initial reports indicate the TGV train was stopped on the tracks and restarting when the crash occurred near the town of Denguin. | |
| At least 25 people were reported injured, nine of them seriously. | |
| The BBC's Christian Fraser reports the TGV train had stopped briefly on its route and was moving again, though seemingly not at full speed, which may have prevented a much more serious accident. | |
| Police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly to help the injured passengers from the train. | |
| The collision follows a recent damning report into the rail crash south of Paris last year, in which seven people died. | |
| That report highlighted the poor state of France's rail network, with the blame placed on poor maintenance checks. |