Cleaner seriously hurt after crashing train

A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a depot and drove it off the rails and into a Swedish apartment building.

Police said the woman was seriously injured in the early morning crash outside Stockholm and was flown to hospital. No one else was hurt.

Train operator Arriva said the woman, in her 20s, stole the four-car train at a depot outside the city.

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She then drove it about a mile to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks and crashed into a three-storey building.

”There were three families inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not physically,” an Aviva spokesman said. It was not known why the woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, took the train.

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