Updated 14:10pm
Six people have been killed in a train accident on a bridge in Denmark.
Police said 16 others were injured in the incident on the Great Belt Bridge, which links the two main Danish islands of Zealand and Funen.
The accident involving a passenger train a freight train travelling in the opposite directions happened at around 8am local time this morning.
It is believed the passenger train was hit by cargo or tarpaulin from the other train.
A police spokesman said the passenger train had been "hit an unknown object" but did not comment further.
Brewing company Carslberg confirmed the freight train was transporting their goods between its Fredericia brewery and Copenhagen.
Picture by: Michael Bager/AP/Press Association Images
The passenger train was heading towards capital Copenhagen - having departed from the city of Odense - when the accident happened around 8am local time on Wednesday.
There was a total of 131 passengers and three crew on board.
Heidi Langberg Zumbusch, who had just boarded the train and taken her seat when the accident happened, said there was a "loud crash and the windows started smashing onto our heads."
"We flew down onto the floor, and then the train stopped," she told Denmark's public broadcaster DR.
"We were lucky. The people in the carriage in front of us were not so lucky."
"This morning's tragic accident on the Great Belt Bridge with many killed and wounded has shaken us all," said Denmark's prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
"Ordinary Danes on their way to work or on the way home from Christmas holidays have had their lives shattered."
Damaged compartments on a cargo train near the Storebaelt Bridge, near Nyborg in Denmark, Wednesday, 02-01-2019. Image: Michael Bager/AP/Press Association Images
An evacuation centre has been set up in the central city of Nyborg.
Authorities have urged anyone who was on the train to contact relatives to let them know they are OK.
Emergency services are attending the scene of the accident.
The Storebaelt bridge, also known as the Great Belt Fixed Link, joins Denmark's two most-populated islands of Zealand and Funen.
The road and rail bridge is part of a transport system consisting of a road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel.
It had been closed to cars overnight because of strong winds but trains could pass.
Additional reporting from IRN ...
