Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm (1am AEST) near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.
Czechia came to a standstill as people across the country observed a minute of silence at midday as part of a national day of mourning to honour victims of the worst mass killing in Czech history.
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Scottish authorities have reported nearly 2000 coronavirus cases linked to watching European Championship games in stadiums, public gatherings, pubs, or private homes.
Germany has implemented tight border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.
Countries including the Netherlands, Blegium, Austria and Italy have announced bans of flights from the UK in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southern England does not reach its shores.
A day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases, as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates.
The Czech Republic's prime minister called on his health minister to resign or be fired after he broke strict government restrictions to slow a record surge of coronavirus infections and visited a Prague restaurant.
The measures include limits on free movement and the closure of many stores, shopping malls and hotels. They will remain in place until at least November 3.
Multiple European countries are seeing new restrictions implemented as cases spike again. Germany posted another daily record of new cases as their President awaits results of a COVID-19 test.
The Polish military has admitted it accidentally invaded the Czech Republic last month, but it insists its brief occupation of a small part of the country was simply a "misunderstanding."
Some nations in the West are starting to feel their way gradually out of the limits on daily life imposed by governments to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" won a deluge of Academy Awards including best director Oscars, has died aged 86.
A Czech zoo said Tuesday it had begun to saw off the horns from its herd of rare rhinos after a brutal attack in a French zoo where poachers shot dead a white rhino and hacked off its horns.
Two teenagers in the Czech Republic have taken social media pranks to a whole new level of danger, sharing a video of them lying down in front of a train and staying there as it passes over them.