BAD AIBLING (GERMANY): Two commuter trains crashed head-on in southern Germany today, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100, in one of the country’s deadliest rail accidents in years.
Hundreds of rescuers were scouring for more passengers trapped in the mangled wreckage in a wooded area near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60 kilometres southeast of Munich.
At least two carriages from one train were overturned, while the front of the other was crushed. Blue, yellow and silver metal debris was strewn around the crash site next to a river in the southern state of Bavaria.
“We now have nine dead,” said police spokesman Juergen Thalmeier. One person was still missing, likely trapped in the wreckage.
Eighteen people were seriously injured and 90 had light injuries, police said in a statement.
The two train drivers and two conductors were among those killed, local broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk reported. (AGENCIES)
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