A train crash in eastern Germany has killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, police said today.
A passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt’s state capital Magdeburg, at about 10.30pm last night. Several cars of the train carrying some 45 passengers derailed and overturned, a spokesman for the district’s firefighters said.
The crash happened about 125 miles south-west of Berlin, Germany’s capital. The cause of the incident is, as yet, unclear.
Saxony-Anhalt deputy interior minister Ruediger Erben, who rushed to the scene late yesterday, said the trains must have crashed head-on at a high rate of speed, German news agency DAPD reported. The noise of the collision was heard in Oschersleben village, some 4.35 miles from the crash site.
AP