Eight people were killed and two injured when a train hit a minibus on a level crossing in central Poland this morning.
Most of the casualties are believed to have been citizens of Ukraine, but their identities were still being checked, said the governor of the Lodz region, where the crash took place.
"I have already alerted the Ukrainian embassy, its consul or a deputy consul will probably come to the accident location," governor Joanna Chelminska told broadcaster TVN 24.
The minibus carrying eight women and two men drove onto an unguarded crossing near the city of Lodz.
The force of the collision with the train pushed the bus 30m down the track, a local policeman told the broadcaster.
"The impact was so strong that we cannot even recognise the make of the vehicle," police officer Krzysztof Zielinski said.
"None of the train passengers was hurt."
Two women from the minibus were taken to local hospitals with serious injuries.
In March, 16 people died and 60 were injured in a head-on collision between two trains.
