BAD AIBLING, Germany — Two
commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday morning in southern Germany, killing at
least eight people and injuring some 150, police said.
Police spokesman Stefan
Sonntag told The Associated Press the two regional trains crashed before 7 a.m.
on the single line that runs near Bad Aibling, in Bavaria, and that several
wagons overturned.
Fifty of those hurt have
serious injuries, he said. It took hours to reach some of the injured in the
wreckage.
The rail line is commonly used
by commuters heading to work in Munich, and would normally also carry children
traveling to school, but they are currently on holiday, the dpa news agency
reported.
The trains crashed in a remote
area about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Munich in an area with a
forest on one side and a river on the other.
Rescue crews using helicopters
and small boats shuttled injured passengers to the other side of the Mangfall
river to waiting ambulances. Authorities said they were being taken to
hospitals across southern Bavaria.
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