A high-speed Intercity Express (ICE) train derailed in southern Germany today, seriously injuring at least one person, German police said.
A spokesman said the train travelling between Karlsruhe and Basel, Switzerland, crashed in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg near the town of Istein.
He said at least one person was seriously hurt but had no further details.
The German television network NTV quoted another police spokesman saying that the train derailed after hitting a farm vehicle that apparently fell onto the track.
More than 100 people were killed in 1998 in Germany's worst train crash when a similar ICE high-speed train jumped the rails and crashed into a bridge near Eschede in northern Germany, while travelling at a speed of 200 kph (120 mph).
