Twenty-eight people remain in hospital - nine of them in a critical condition - after a train crash near Bedford, UK.

Axar.az reports, citing BBC, a train driver was killed and 100 people injured when two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services to London St Pancras collided at 17:15 BST on Friday.

Eleven people were very seriously injured, a further 32 were described as injured and 57 had minor injuries, East of England Ambulance Service confirmed.

Speaking near the scene on Saturday, Chief Constable Lucy D'Orsi of British Transport Police (BTP) said the crash was being investigated and asked people to refrain from speculating about what happened.