Two trains collide in Germany, on Tuesday (9/2) morning local time. Photo: AFP
MUNICH - Two commuter
train collision in southern Germany, on Tuesday (9/2) morning. Until this news
was revealed, the local authority to record at least nine dead, 18 seriously
injured and 90 slightly injured.
Hundreds of rescuers
must thoroughly search for and evacuate the trapped in the rubble of the train,
which collided head in a forest area near Bad Aibling, about 60 kilometers
southeast of Munich.
Two carriages of the
train had upside-down. While the other one, has been destroyed. "We record
already nine were killed," said police spokesman Juergen Thalmeier, as
quoted by AFP, Tuesday (9/2)
One person is still
missing, chances are trapped in the rubble. Eighteen people were seriously
injured and 90 suffered minor injuries. Two train drivers and two conductors
were among those killed.
"Hundreds of
firefighters, emergency service workers and police were deployed in the rescue
operation complicated because the jungle crash site was difficult to
access," said Thalmeier.
In an interview with
a television station, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said an
investigation is underway to determine whether the crash was caused by
technical problems or human error.
This is indeed a
tragic accident, as happens in these single-track between Rosenhaim and
Holzkirchen. Rainer Scharf, a Bavarian police officer, said, given the severity
of the accident, most likely two trains collided head on low speed.
This accident is the
first since April 2012, when three people were killed and 13 injured in a
collision between two regional trains in the western city of Offenbach. Train
accident (post-war) in the country's deadliest occurred in 1998, when an ICE
high-speed train that connects Munich and Hamburg derailed, killing 101 people
and wounded 88 in the northern city of Eschede. (Adk / JPNN)
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