Train crash in Germany leaves 10 dead

At least 10 people are reported killed and dozens injured when a freight train collided with a regional passenger train in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Izvor: Deutsche Welle

Sunday, 30.01.2011.

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At least 10 people are reported killed and dozens injured when a freight train collided with a regional passenger train in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Police in eastern Germany say at least 10 people were killed when a goods trains crashed head-on with a local passenger train in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, near the city of Magdeburg. Train crash in Germany leaves 10 dead It's not clear what caused the collision which left some 40 people injured, 18 of them seriously. The train, the HarzElbeExpress, carrying around 50 passengers was traveling on a single track section from Magdeburg to the town of Halberstadt. Several carriages were derailed after the collision. More than 150 firemen, police and rescue workers were deployed at the scene. Traffic was interrupted on the line and bus shuttles were set up. Heavy fog at the scene prevented helicopters from airlifting the worst injured. Police aren't ruling out a rise in the death toll because of the severity of the injuries. "Rescue operations are still ongoing. The death toll may well rise further," regional police spokesman Frank Kuessner said. A spokesman for the Veolia group which runs the HarzElbeExpress line said the dead included the train driver and a conductor. Police are now focusing on the cause of the crash, the sound of which was reportedly heard miles away. "We're investigating in all directions - including human error as well as technical failure," a spokesman for the federal police said. He said that the trains had hit each other with such force that the passengers at the front were killed immediately. Germany has been hit by several deadly train accidents in the past few years. The worst postwar train disaster occurred on June 3, 1998 when an InterCity Express (ICE) traveling from Munich in the south to Hamburg in the north hit a bridge and derailed, killing 101 and injuring 88 at Eschede in northern Germany. The city of Magdeburg

Train crash in Germany leaves 10 dead

It's not clear what caused the collision which left some 40 people injured, 18 of them seriously.

The train, the HarzElbeExpress, carrying around 50 passengers was traveling on a single track section from Magdeburg to the town of Halberstadt. Several carriages were derailed after the collision.

More than 150 firemen, police and rescue workers were deployed at the scene. Traffic was interrupted on the line and bus shuttles were set up.

Heavy fog at the scene prevented helicopters from airlifting the worst injured. Police aren't ruling out a rise in the death toll because of the severity of the injuries.

"Rescue operations are still ongoing. The death toll may well rise further," regional police spokesman Frank Kuessner said.

A spokesman for the Veolia group which runs the HarzElbeExpress line said the dead included the train driver and a conductor.

Police are now focusing on the cause of the crash, the sound of which was reportedly heard miles away.

"We're investigating in all directions - including human error as well as technical failure," a spokesman for the federal police said. He said that the trains had hit each other with such force that the passengers at the front were killed immediately.

Germany has been hit by several deadly train accidents in the past few years.

The worst postwar train disaster occurred on June 3, 1998 when an InterCity Express (ICE) traveling from Munich in the south to Hamburg in the north hit a bridge and derailed, killing 101 and injuring 88 at Eschede in northern Germany.

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