London (CNN)A "number of people" have been left injured from a train collision at a tunnel near Salisbury, England, according to the British Transport Police (BTP).
"Thankfully no one has died," the BTP tweeted shortly after 9:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. EDT) Sunday.
Officers are continuing to respond to the incident at the Fisherton Tunnel, the agency added.
Earlier Sunday, BTP officers had been called to assist, "following reports a train derailed."
A tweet from the Wiltshire Police also said police officers were responding with fire and ambulance service "at the scene of a train crash involving two trains between Andover and Salisbury."
A statement from Network Rail Wessex said the incident involved the 17:08 p.m. Great Western Railway service between Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads and the 17:20 p.m. South Western Railway service from London Waterloo to Honiton.
The line remains closed as emergency services carry out their work, Network Rail Wessex added.
A major incident has been declared after two trains collided in Salisbury, leaving several people injured.
The collision happened near London Road and involved a South Western Railway and a Great Western service.
A train driver, who was trapped, was treated by paramedics. In total, 17 people were taken to hospital.
The crash happened at 18:46 GMT when one train hit an object in a tunnel, and the second train then collided with it due to signalling problems.
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Angela Mattingly, who was on the train, said: "Everything went black and there were red flashes and everything.
"There was suddenly a lot of jostling, possessions being thrown around and I think a few people went forward and hit their heads. You just don't know for a couple of seconds what's happening.
"People started to panic but nobody was seriously injured."
Lucy Gregory added: "We were just pulling into Salisbury station and the train felt a bit juddery.
"I'd just stood up and put my coat on and my phone in my pocket when there was this massive impact and I fell across the table.
"The table came off the wall and I ended up underneath another table. They smashed the windows and we got out of the window. It was really scary."
Corinna Anderson, 51, from Derby, was on the train from London Waterloo to Salisbury, where she was due to visit a friend.
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She said: "I was thrown against the wall and there was a massive rumbling.
"The first thing I was worried about was is anybody hurt. I'm a trained first aider, so I wanted to help.
"There was a lady in the carriage I was in and she was thrown off her seat and into the wall by the door.
"I did hear and see that on the Temple Meads train there was a three-week-old baby that was rescued off the train by the fire service and thankfully she is doing ok.
"As I climbed off my train I saw the fireman cradling the baby in his arms and then I saw the mother get given the baby and they were escorted away for medical attention."
'Shook up'
Ms Anderson said she was taken along with some other passengers to the casualty centre at St Marks Church.
"A lot of people are shook up, but generally everybody is thankful that nobody has been seriously hurt," she said.
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue declared the crash a "major incident", with some 50 firefighters attending the scene.
Police, the ambulance service and coastguard helicopters were also sent to the scene.
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Other train services in the area, close to Fisherton Tunnel in the city, have been halted.
A mother who was out trick or treating with her family nearby likened the noise of the crash to "a bomb".
Tamar Vellacott, 25, said she was walking outside with her young children, around a kilometre from the scene.
"It was a noise we've never heard before... my young ones started panicking thinking it was a bomb and we said maybe a lorry had crashed on the London Road and not to panic.
"There was no screeching like brakes, just a long rumbling sound like thunder hitting the railway line."
British Transport Police confirmed nobody had died in the crash.
A Network Rail spokesperson said: "At around 19:00 GMT this evening, the rear carriage of the 17:08 Great Western Railway service from Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads derailed after striking an object on its approach to Salisbury station.
"The derailment knocked out all of the signalling in the area.
"Subsequently, the 17:20 South Western Railway service from London Waterloo to Honiton then collided with the Bristol train.
"There are reports of injuries and the emergency services are on site along with railway first responders."
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has also been called to the scene.
British Transport Police said a casualty centre has been set up at St Mark's Church on St Mark's Ave, with local people offering support in the form of blankets, food, drinks and first aid.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted: "My thoughts go out to those affected by the serious rail incident near Salisbury."
He said the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and Office of Rail and Road will investigate, adding: "We need to understand how this happened to prevent in the future."
RAIB is deploying inspectors to the site of a collision between two trains near Salisbury Tunnel Junction. On arrival they will commence a preliminary examination of the scene.
An Office of Rail and Road spokesperson said: "We're supporting Network Rail and the train operators, plus RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) and the British Transport Police with respect to the collision between two trains near Salisbury Tunnel Junction and liaising with emergency services responding to the incident."
Transport Salaried Staffs Association general secretary Manuel Cortes said the incident was "a very sobering reminder about why safety on our railways is always paramount".
British prime minister Boris Johnson has warned there is “a huge way still to go” at the COP26 climate summit, after G20 leaders agreed to stop financing coal power overseas but not to phase it out at home.
In a summit in Rome to pave the way for progress at the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, G20 leaders agreed to end international financing of coal power. They also pledged to take steps to limit global warming to 1.5C — the first time that target had been mentioned in a G20 leaders’ communique.
But they stopped short of agreeing to end the use of coal in their own countries.
“I think we have made reasonable progress at the G20 all things considered. But it is not enough,” Johnson said at a press conference on Sunday evening.
The UK prime minister, who will host the COP26 talks, said the “commitments, welcome as they are, are drops in a rapidly warming ocean”.
US President Joe Biden said it was “disappointing” that Russia and China “basically did not show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change”.
“People should be disappointed in that; I found it disappointing myself,” he told reporters on Sunday.
He also called out Saudi Arabia, saying: “More has to be done, but we need to continue to focus on what China is not doing, what Russia is not doing, and what Saudi Arabia is not doing.”
UN secretary-general António Guterres said he “welcomed” the G20 outcome but added: “I leave Rome with my hopes unfulfilled — but at least they are not buried.”
The G20’s decision on coal is highly influential because the group, made up of 19 countries plus the EU, includes the world’s biggest coal consumers and accounts for 80 per cent of global emissions.
However, the deep divisions in Rome over coal — which was the last element of the communique to be agreed on Sunday afternoon — also highlight the challenges ahead at COP26, which is supposed to agree on the rules that govern the Paris climate accord. Leaders from more than 100 countries are due to attend.
“If Glasgow fails, then the whole thing fails,” said Johnson, speaking just minutes before departing for Scotland. “Right now the Paris Agreement, and the hope that came with it, is just a piece of paper. We need to fill that piece of paper to populate it with real progress.”
Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, who hosted the G20, said the summit was a success and that Rome would triple its annual climate funding.
“The COP26 will be on a pretty solid foundation now. We changed the goalposts,” Draghi added. “For the first time, G20 countries have committed to limiting global warming to 1.5C . . . We have a common ambition now, which we didn’t have before.”
But others said they wished that the Rome summit had been able to do more on climate change.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: “There’s no question that Canada, and other countries, would have liked stronger language and stronger commitments on the fight against climate change.”
“But we did make significant progress on recognising 1.5 degrees and the goals we need to share,” Trudeau added.
The agreement at the summit in Rome follows heated debate and opposition from coal-dependent countries, including Turkey and Russia.
Global agreement to restrict financing for the fossil fuel was one of the main targets for the G20 ahead of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, which officially started on Sunday. Its British hosts have said they want to “consign coal to history”.
The summit had already reached broad agreement on Saturday on vaccines and taxes while the US and EU also struck a deal over steel tariffs on the sidelines of the meeting.
The provision on ending coal finance also applies only to “unabated” new power generation abroad, which means coal plants that include emissions-reduction technology, such as scrubbing carbon dioxide from the smokestack, could still be financed.
Negotiators erupted in applause on Sunday morning when a section of the communiqué was agreed that referenced limiting global warming to 1.5C — the first time it had been mentioned in a G20 leaders’ official statement. Global warming since pre-industrial times is already estimated at 1.1C.
The Paris climate accord, which is signed by all G20 members, aims to limit global warming to well below 2C, with best efforts made to keep rises to 1.5C, which is a much harder target.
Police have yet to establish the exact details of how the tragic incident developed.
Three people died in the river Cleddau at Haverfordwest after getting into difficulty (Image: Martin Cavaney/Athena Pictures)
The five other people were rescued without injury from the river Cleddau at Haverfordwest in Wales, according to Dyfed-Powys Police.
A spokeswoman for the force told Wales Online : "Three people have died and one remains in hospital following a multi-agency river rescue in Pembrokeshire yesterday.
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"Dyfed-Powys Police received reports of people in distress in the Cleddau River in Haverfordwest shortly after 9am on Saturday, October 30.
"A group of nine adults from the south Wales area had travelled to Pembrokeshire for a paddle-boarding excursion.
Paddleboards were seen being removed from the river by emergency services after three people died (Image: Martin Cavaney/Athena Pictures)
"The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated, but it is believed that the group got into difficulty in the water.
"Sadly two women and a man died at the scene, and a woman remains in a critical condition in hospital. Next of kin are being supported by specialist Family Liaison Officers.
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"A further five people were rescued without injury. A member of the public is also believed to have entered the water to attempt a rescue, later exiting the water safely."
President Emmanuel Macron has told Boris Johnson to "respect the rules", according to a French official, as the pair met following a row over fishing.
During the meeting in Rome, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the French president said he has also triggered some measures aimed at easing tensions, according to French news outlet BFM.
"The goal for both the president and the prime minister was to work towards de-escalation," a French presidential official told reporters after a private, one-on-one meeting.
It comes amid fears the UK and France only have two days to come to an agreement over fishing rights before the French impose restrictions at some of their ports.
French officials have threatened to ban UK fishing boats from some ports and tighten customs checks on lorries entering the country with British goods from Tuesday unless more licences are granted for small boats to fish in British waters.
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There have been tensions over post-Brexit fishing rights for months but they hit the headlines again on Thursday when France seized a British scallop trawler, accusing the operators of fishing without a licence.
Image:Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron appeared at ease at the G20 summit but behind the smiles, there is tension
The trawler's owner said at the time that it was "another pawn in the ongoing dispute between the UK and France on the implementation of the Brexit fishing agreement".
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Relations worsened when French President Emmanuel Macron told the Financial Times on Friday that the UK was risking its "credibility" after going back on commitments made to the EU with regards to fishing.
A letter seen by Sky News showed French Prime Minister Jean Castex telling European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the bloc should prove there is "more damage to leaving the EU than to remaining there".
Brexit minister Lord Frost said the comments were "very troubling and very problematic", especially with "highly sensitive" negotiations underway with Brussels in an attempt to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
He said the bloc would be in breach of the post-Brexit free trade deal terms if France carried out its threats on 2 November - threats which have also included restricting energy supplies to the UK and Jersey.
Image:Clement Beaune defended his country's actions on Sunday
In a series of tweets on Saturday, the Conservative peer said the UK was "actively considering" legal proceedings to solve the dispute.
But on Sunday morning, France's secretary of state for European Affairs, Clement Beaune, defended the actions of his government.
Writing on Twitter, Mr Beaune said: "Following the Brexit deal (TCA), access was due to be granted within days to EU boats. We have now been negotiating patiently and constructively for 10 months, replying to a series of detailed and additional requests from British authorities, boat by boat.
"What is the current situation? We do not lack just a few licences, but more than 40% of French detailed requests. For the EU as a whole, around 90% of the expected licences have been granted, but all the missing ones are French.
"This is why France asks for action at the EU level, within the framework of the TCA, and stands ready to implement proportionate and reversible measures from 2 November, as we have announced repeatedly since last April. These measures are fully in line with the TCA.
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"It's positive to read that the UK cares about the TCA; France and the EU expect its full respect and implementation, regarding fishing rights, the Northern Ireland Protocol and all other - agreed and ratified - matters."
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "The prime minister raised his concerns about the rhetoric from the French government in recent days over the issue of fishing licences.
"The prime minister stressed that the French threats are completely unjustified and do not appear to be compatible with the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement or wider international law."
Emergency services at River Cleddau in Haverfordwest, Wales (Picture: Martin Cavaney/Athena Pictures)
Three people have died and one is fighting her life in hospital after a group of paddleboarders got into difficulty on a river in Wales.
A man and two women drowned after reportedly being swept away in the flooded River Cleddau in Haverfordwest yesterday.
Another woman was airlifted to Withybush Hospital and continues to be treated in a critical condition.
Five other paddleboarders were rescued from the water, but were not injured.
The river had become flooded and turbulent after torrential downpours, as parts of the UK were battered with nearly a month’s worth of rain in 48 hours.
Emergency responders, including several air ambulances, were scrambled to the river to search for the paddleboarders.
The group of nine paddleboarders are said to have been a part of the South Wales Paddle Boarders and Salty Dog Co, an organisation based in Port Talbot.
They were on an annual tour, spending the weekend together exploring the river.
Two air ambulance helicopters were scrambled to the river (Picture: Martin Cavaney/Athena Pictures)
One of the members said she had pulled out of the paddle yesterday morning as she was concerned about the conditions.
Vickie Mckinven, from Milford Haven, said: ‘Absolutely heartbreaking, we were all good friends. And did so much to raise money for charities.’
Someone is also believed to have entered the water to attempt a rescue, but later exited the water safely.
Dyfed-Powys Police have not yet released the names of those who have died but said their next of kin are being supported by specialist officers.
Detective Chief Inspector Jonathan Rees said a full investigation was already under way but at this stage his thoughts were focused on the loved ones of those who had died.
A police spokesperson said: ‘Dyfed-Powys Police received reports of people in distress in the Cleddau River in Haverfordwest shortly after 9am on Saturday, October 30.
Paddleboards were recovered by the emergency services from the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest (Picture: Martin Cavaney/Athena Pictures)
‘A group of nine adults from the south Wales area had travelled to Pembrokeshire for a paddle-boarding excursion.
‘The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated, but it is believed that the group got into difficulty in the water.
‘Sadly two women and a man died at the scene, and a woman remains in a critical condition in hospital. Next of kin are being supported by specialist family liaison officers.’
Politicians are passing on messages of support for the heartbroken families involved in the drowning tragedy.
Liz Saville Roberts, leader of Plaid Cymru in Westminster, said: ‘The news emerging from the River Cleddau incident in #Haverfordwest is distressing.
‘God speed the emergency services and support the families.’
Town councillor Thomas Tudor sent his thoughts ‘to the families who have lost loved ones’ in the ‘terrible tragedy’.
Stephen Crabb, Welsh Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, said: ‘Horrific incident in Haverfordwest this afternoon.
‘Thoughts with all involved and the emergency services responding.’
NPAS south west region also tweeted about their involvement, saying: ‘Thoughts are with all those effected by the tragedy today in #Haverfordwest.’
COP26 President Alok Sharma has said he wants "more out of every country" and now is the time to deliver on limiting temperature rises to below 1.5C.
Ahead of around 120 world leaders gathering at the event in Glasgow on Monday for a two-day summit, Mr Sharma urged them to do more to help the planet.
Speaking to Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Mr Sharma said: "My message to them is very clear, leave the ghosts of the past behind you and let's focus on the future and unite around this one issue that we know matters to all of us, which is protecting our precious planet."
He said the summit of world leaders at COP26 is very important for agreeing a consensus but added there are two whole weeks of "detailed negotiations" following that two-day summit - and without a deal "the future is really quite unimaginable".
"This is a chance for all these countries to show leadership, this is the point where they have to stand up and be counted," he said.
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"I want more out of every country.
"But I think the point is we have made progress and then we're going to have to take stock on where there is a gap between where the commitments are and where we need to be."
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He said it is important that leaders discuss how to close that gap over the next decade.
But he played down the significance of China and Russia's leaders not turning up in Glasgow, saying they have "both announced net zero targets for the middle of the century" and that all countries need to show leadership on climate change.
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However, he said the challenge at COP26 is more difficult than in Paris in 2015.
"Paris was a brilliant achievement, an historical achievement, but it was a framework agreement," he said.
"What we have had to do since then is agree some of the detailed rules and some of the most difficult rules are still outstanding after six years. That makes it really challenging and, of course, we know that the geopolitics is more difficult than it was at the time of Paris."
The government is hoping a detailed agreement will be made between countries around the world at the end of the fortnight of COP26.
Asked if Mr Sharma thinks it will end in a deal, he said: "That is what I'm driving towards and I think what I've always said is what we need to come out of Glasgow is saying with credibility that we have kept 1.5C alive.
"That 1.5C really matters."
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He added at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels there will be countries in the world that will be underwater, which is why an agreement is needed on how to tackle climate change over the next decade.
Labour's Emily Thornberry told Trevor Phillips on Sunday the summit is "not a giant photo opportunity" for Boris Johnson and called on him to "summon up all the statesmanship he has" to get countries to agree to a deal.
This year's summit is particularly important as it will be the first time the parties will review the most up-to-date plans for how they will limit global warming to 2C but ideally 1.5C, a goal set under the Paris Agreement at COP21.
Ambitions to achieve that may be depleted as a draft joint statement by G20 leaders contains few concrete actions to limit carbon emissions, according to Reuters journalists who have seen the statement.
Boris Johnson told Sky News' Beth Rigby on Saturday that success in the fight to tackle global warming "is going to be very difficult" but "the whole of humanity is in the ring".
On Friday, he said "Team World" was "5-1" down at half-time in the battle to save the planet.
