BUDAPEST, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Three South Koreans citizens were the victims of a serious train accident at Kismaros in northern Hungary, Hungarian police said Thursday.
"South Korean citizens were the victims of a train accident in Kismaros that occurred Wednesday evening," police said in a statement.
"On Wednesday evening, the Bathory Eurocity express train from Warsaw to the Western Railway Station of Budapest collided with a car between Kismaros and Nagymaros at a railroad crossing with a light barrier. Three in the car lost their lives," the statement detailed.
Police said: "Their vehicle was driven on the rails and collided with a train despite the red light."
The fatal accident came less than three months after a tourist ship sank in central Budapest with South Korean tourists onboard on May 29 following colliding with the Viking Sigyn hotel ship.
Twenty-eight of them lost their lives in the accident, including the Hungarian captain and sailor of the Mermaid. Only seven people survived and one body has never been recovered.
