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BREAKING: Two trams crash on Rotterdam’s Erasmusbrug, leaving 18 people injured

Eighteen people were hurt, two of them seriously, when two trams collided on Rotterdam's Erasmusbrug this morning. The crash happened around 11:10 AM, when one tram was standing still on the...
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