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Nine people in critical condition among 100 injured in fatal Bedford train crash
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- Laura Devlin'Like a bomb explosion': Bedford train passenger describes crash Twenty-eight people remain in hospital - nine of them in a critical condition - after a train crash near Bedford, police have said.
- A train driver was killed and 100 people injured when two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services to London St Pancras collided at 17:15 BST on Friday.
- Eleven people were very seriously injured, a further 32 were described as injured and 57 had minor injuries, East of England Ambulance Service confirmed.
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Laura Devlin'Like a bomb explosion': Bedford train passenger describes crash Twenty-eight people remain in hospital - nine of them in a critical condition - after a train crash near Bedford, police have said.
A train driver was killed and 100 people injured when two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services to London St Pancras collided at 17:15 BST on Friday.
Eleven people were very seriously injured, a further 32 were described as injured and 57 had minor injuries, East of England Ambulance Service confirmed.
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