A 68-year-old woman has died of injuries she sustained when two trains collided head-on in Amsterdam, injuring scores of passengers.
Eberhard van der Laan, the mayor of Amsterdam, said 16 other people who were seriously injured in the Saturday crash are still in hospital.
Beer Meerstadt, the director of The Netherlands' railroad operator, NS, said: "Two trains colliding on the same track is a nightmare".
Locomotives yesterday two away the two trains involved in the collision as technicians began studying the tracks for damage.
Mr Meerstadt declined to speculate on what caused the collision. He said crash investigators would study black box recorders on both trains.
The accident happened near a popular park on a busy stretch of track close to Amsterdam's Central Station where trains generally do not travel at full speed. More than 100 people were injured, 42 of which were serious.
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