PRAGUE: Two people died and dozens were injured Tuesday when two passenger trains collided near the western Czech spa city of Karlovy Vary, a railway spokeswoman said.

Photos tweeted by the police showed the two drivers' cabins destroyed but the trains did not derail.

"Two people died and about 20 others are injured," Radka Pistoriusova, spokeswoman for rail operator Sprava zeleznic, told AFP.

Rescue service spokesman Radek Hes told AFP the two people had died on the spot.