Two trains have collided in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany, according to a local transport company. At least 20 people were injured, two of them seriously, local media report.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in a suburb of the western German city of Duisburg. Two light trains collided near the Auf dem Damm station, a local transport company has confirmed in a Facebook post.

The company has stressed the trains did not collide head-on-head, dismissing earlier media reports on the incident. It did not provide any details on the number of casualties. Local media, however, reported that at least 20 people were injured, two of them seriously.

One of the victims sustained a head injury, RP-Online reported. The majority of those affected suffered only minor injuries, however, a source with local emergency services told the news outlet.

Initial photos from the scene suggest that one train hit another from the rear, but the exact cause of the incident remains unknown. Some 80 rescuers and 30 vehicles were deployed to the scene, Focus Online reported, citing an emergency services spokesperson.

The victims have reportedly been attended to by paramedics on the street just outside the train station. A helicopter of the emergency services was also seen at the site. The station remains closed after the incident. </s> Two trains have collided in Germany leaving dozens of people injured

The crash in Duisburg - a city in north-west Germany - has left at least 35 people injured and two in a serious condition.

One of the severely injured passengers has “a head wound” and others have cuts and bruises, local media reports.

The train collision took place in the tunnel at "Auf dem Damm" station in the Meiderich quarter, which is an underground Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr station.

Pictures from the crash show an entire pane of glass from one of the trains smashed onto the track.

Both trains appear to have been damaged in the collision. </s> According to the local emergency services, two trains have collided in Pretoria, leaving at least two people dead.

"We have got two confirmed fatalities, and we have got different emergency services on site", an emergency services official said, according to Reuters.

A video from the site has appeared on Twitter. </s> At least 12 people died and another 20 were injured on Wednesday when a Egyptian passenger train collided with a freight train in the village of Kom Hamada in the northern province of Beheira, a Health Ministry spokesman said.

The accident occurred when two passenger carriages disconnected from the rest of the train and collided with a freight train, the cause of which is still unknown, Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed was quoted by the official MENA news agency as saying. </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> Emergency workers at the scene of an accident after a passenger train collided with a landslide, near Vacarisses, some 45 kilometers northwest of Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday Nov. 20, 2018. One person died and dozens were injured Tuesday after a landslide derailed a commuter train traveling toward Barcelona, Spanish authorities said. (Anti-radar Catalunya via AP) (AP) </s> BUCHAREST, Romania — Emergency officials in Romania say a 20-year-old stabbed another man and then drove a car into people on a road and at a shopping mall, injuring 10 in total. None of the injuries are considered life-threatening.

Braila County Police spokeswoman Laura Dan said the stabbing allegedly happened following an altercation over ownership of the vehicle. Dan says the suspect drove off and allegedly struck two people on a ring road, then later rammed the doors of a shopping mall in the city of Braila.

Seven people were injured at the mall, including two children ages 11 and 13.

Braila Emergency Hospital spokeswoman Alina Neacsu said the stabbing victim had chest and stomach wounds and underwent surgery.

Dan says the suspect had a blood alcohol level of 0.37 mg and was uninjured. Drinking any amount of alcohol and then driving is illegal in Romania. </s> At least 35 people were injured in an underground train collision in the western German town of Duisburg on Tuesday, according to the local fire service.

The incident occured in an underground tunnel in the district of Meiderich, when one train drove into the tail end of another, German news reports said.

Two people were reportedly hospitalised following the crash but no one was injured critically. </s> The scene of a train collision at the Mountainview station in Pretoria, South Africa

The scene of a train collision at the Mountainview station in Pretoria, South Africa

THREE PEOPLE HAVE been killed and more than 600 people have been injured after two passenger trains collided head on during in South Africa’s capital city Pretoria.

Two critically injured people were airlifted from the scene of the crash in Mountain View, northern Pretoria, spokesman Charles Mabaso told AFP.

Another 641 people were hurt, with 11 sustaining critical injuries and 62 suffering “moderate” injuries.

“The current fatalities stand at three, but it still might rise,” said Mabaso.

When paramedics arrived on the scene, they found carriages from both trains tilting half off the track.

“Numerous passengers were found either in the trains or found walking around on the scene,” Russel Meiring, a spokesman for the ER24 emergency services, said in a statement.

Rail accidents are common in South Africa. In 2016-17, 495 people were killed on the country’s railways, according to the Railway Safety Regulator.

Transport Minister Blade Nzimande said the accident was caused by signals failure which he blamed on cable theft.

“I’m truly saddened about this continuing deaths of commuters at Metrorail,” said the minister after visiting the scene of the crash.

“I’m personally outraged … we can’t every time be having the repeat of the same problem.

“As government, we have to bring this to end. We need more stringent measures to be able to deal with this situation.

“We need to find a way of dealing with rail safety,” he said, demanding explanation from the country’s rail agency.

The theft of railway cables is a continuing problem in the country. They are often melted into ingots before being smuggled to Asia.

Khanyisile Kweyama, the chairwoman of the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, admitted that the security of rail signalling cables “hasn’t been” great.
A collision between two trains in Gorj County, Romania, leaves one dead and another in critical condition.