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 on 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 on 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 on Monday, when a train hit their car at a crossing near Lake Starnberg.
Emergency services attend the scene after a cargo train and a passenger train collided in Aichach, 50 Kilomete... Read More