The Šakvice train disaster occurred on 24 December 1953 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

The Ministry of the Interior said there was gross negligence by a number of railway men who had since been arrested.

Other reports said that the express train crew had consumed a number of bottles of wine.

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