At Least 10 Dead Found After Train Crash In Southern Germany
German rescuers scrambled in an emergency and rescue effort to pull out survivors from two wrecked commuter trains that collided head-on in a remote area of Bavaria on Tuesday with death toll reaching to at least 10 dozens and a hundred more injured.
The recent train crash has raised questions about the reliability of European railway and the apparent breakdown of safety measures.
According to a report by NPR, the collision occurred near the remote Bavarian town of Bad Aibling which is about 40 miles southeast of Munich. Currently, investigators are in the crash site figuring out how and why the deadly accident happened.
"The head-on crash occurred during the morning rush hour on a remote stretch of track in Bavaria. Rescue workers struggled to get to trapped passengers in the gnarled wreckage on the mountainside. Investigators are unclear how the crash could have happened given safety measures," reported news correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson for NPR.
Initially, nine passengers including two train engineers died while the 10th crash victim died some hours later in the hospital.
"The missing person is in the part of the train where there's little hope of finding anyone alive. This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region," remarked police spokesman Stefan Sonntag as mentioned in a Yahoo News report.
The crash proved to have shocked Germans in a country known for its obsession for transportation technology and safety.
"It's a shocking sight how the two trains collided and the one has smashed into the other. It's a heavy point in the history of German train travel, one of the worst accidents of the past years," said German Transport minister Alexander Dobrindt in a news conference as stated in an ABC News article.
