Two killed and 14 injured as trains collide in Germany in Aichach

Two people have been killed and 14 others were injured after a cargo train and a passenger train collided in Aichach, 50 kn west oh Munich in southern Germany on Monday.

The deceased persons have been identified as the driver of the passenger train and a female passenger. Emergency services attended the train collision spot.

The passenger train hit the stationary cargo train on May 7 in southern Germany. One of the injured person is in serious condition. The passenger train was travelling from Augsburg to Ingolstadt when it hit the cargo train near a station in Aichach town.

The driver of the cargo train was not injured and the authorities are investigating the reason for the collision. </s> At least two people have died and 14 are injured after a horror train crash in Germany.

A freight train and a passenger train collided in the Bavarian town of Aichach at around 9.15pm on Monday.

The two dead include a train driver and a passenger.

Three of those injured suffered serious injuries, Der Spiegel reports.

The cause of the crash is not known.

Neither train derailed but pictures from the scene showed severe damage to carriages.

Police said all victims have now been taken to hospital from the scene.

Investigators are now scouring the wrecked trains for evidence. </s> Berlin, May 8 (IANS) At least two people have been killed in a collision between a passenger and a freight train in Germany.

According to German railway company Deutsche Bahn, the accident occurred when the regional passenger train crashed head-on into the standing freight train near Aichach railway station in Bavaria on Monday night, Xinhua news agency reported.

The train conductor and one passenger were killed and 14 others were injured in the collision. The cause of the accident and the speed at which the passenger train was travelling were still unknown on Tuesday.

The night-time collision was the second fatal train accident to occur in Bavaria on Monday. Earlier in the day, a car was hit by a train on a railway crossing and dragged along the rails for hundreds of metres. The driver and a passenger in the car both died in the accident. </s> BERLIN (Reuters) - A goods train and a passenger train collided in southern Germany on Monday, rail operator Deutsche Bahn said, and local media reported two people were killed.

Deutsche Bahn said in a statement on its website the collision took place at around 9.20 p.m. local time (1920 GMT) near the Aichach station on the line between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Bavaria.

Deutsche Bahn and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung both reported police as saying said two people were killed and several injured. </s> Deutsche Bahn said in a statement on its website the collision took place at around 9.20 p.m. local time (1920 GMT) near the Aichach station on the line between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Bavaria.

Deutsche Bahn and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung both reported police as saying said two people were killed and several injured. </s> BERLIN — Authorities say two people have died and 14 have been injured after a passenger train hit a stationary cargo train in southern Germany late Monday.

Police said those killed were the driver of the passenger train and a female passenger. One of the injured is in a serious condition.

Markus Trieb, a spokesman for northern Swabia police, said Tuesday that the passenger train was traveling from Augsburg to Ingolstadt when it hit the cargo train near a station in the town of Aichach.

He said the driver of the cargo train was uninjured. Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash.

In a separate incident in Bavaria, two people were killed Monday when a train hit their car at a crossing near Lake Starnberg. </s> A goods train and a passenger train collided in southern Germany on Monday, rail operator Deutsche Bahn said, and local media reported two people were killed.

[BERLIN] A goods train and a passenger train collided in southern Germany on Monday, rail operator Deutsche Bahn said, and local media reported two people were killed.

Deutsche Bahn said in a statement on its website the collision took place at around 9.20pm local time (1920 GMT) near the Aichach station on the line between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Bavaria.

Deutsche Bahn and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung both reported police as saying said two people were killed and several injured. </s> At least two people were killed and several others were hurt when two trains collided late Monday in Germany, the national rail company said.

The Deutsche Bahn network operator said that a commuter service hit a freight train between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Germany’s southern Bavaria region.

“There are some seriously injured and others only lightly,” a Deutsche Bahn spokesman told the German DPA press agency.

German police said that a total of 14 people were hurt.

The company did not immediately provide additional details into the possible causes of the collision. – AFP </s> Two trains collide in Germany, more than 20 injured

A police official told Reuters the two trains had run into each other in a tunnel, but that the cause remained under investigation. — Picture via TwitterBERLIN, April 3 — Nearly two dozen people were injured, two of them seriously, when two underground trains collided in the western German city of Duisburg today, local police said.

A police official told Reuters the two trains had run into each other in a tunnel, but that the cause remained under investigation. He said 20 people had sustained minor injuries.

A transit official said the accident occurred around 1520 CET (1320 GMT) under the Ruhr river.

Local newspapers and television stations said more than 30 people had been injured in the accident.

Buses were dispatched to ferry passengers and to help keep rush-hour traffic running, the transit agency spokesman said.

Germany remains on high alert for possible militant attacks after 12 people were killed in a truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016. — Reuters
A collision of two trains near Aichach in Germany leaves two people dead and at least 14 injured.