Русская версияLukas Humpl, spokesman for the Moravian-Silesian rescue service, told CTK the dead are five women and one man.
Out of the 31 injured, 13 people received severe injuries.
They have been taken to ten hospitals.
Original estimates put the number of victims at ten and the number of injured people at 100.
Zdenek Nytra, head of Moravian-Silesian firefighters, said rescuers have extricated all passengers who survived the accident.
The train carried people to the concert of the British heavy metal group Iron Maiden in Prague tonight.
The accident occurred at around 10:30 when the train crashed into a part of a road bridge, currently being reconstructed, that fell on down just before the passing train.
The train was running at a speed of 140 km/hour at the time of the accident.
The engine and six passenger carriages were derailed.
"The engine driver said that when he was passing the station at about 135km/hour, he noticed that the bridge structure swung and started to fall down. He applied the fast brake and hid in the engine room. In about six seconds, the train crashed (into the ruin) at a speed of 120km/hour," said Jan Kucera, Rail Inspection deputy general inspector.
He said the investigation has only started, but added that the accident was most probably not caused by the engine driver.
(Ceske Noviny)
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