BERLIN - At least 35 people were reported injured, four of them seriously injured, passenger train collision with a freight train Friday night near the city of Mannheim in southwestern Germany.
As reported by AFP news agency on Saturday, the majority of the injuries suffered by the victim as a result of several cars overturned. One of the trains, Eurocity carrying hundreds of passengers. Earlier reports said the number of injuries in the accident 12 people.
The accident occurred at around 19:00 GMT. According to reports, the accident was not casualties, as the train moves slowly when the collision occurred near the station Mannheim, which is also one of the country's main railway junction.
AP news agency quoted the German national railways, Deutsche Bahn, said that a total of five carriages of a passenger train off the track. Two of them upside down. About 250 people were evacuated from the trains after the collision with the freight train.
As reported by AFP news agency on Saturday, the majority of the injuries suffered by the victim as a result of several cars overturned. One of the trains, Eurocity carrying hundreds of passengers. Earlier reports said the number of injuries in the accident 12 people.
The accident occurred at around 19:00 GMT. According to reports, the accident was not casualties, as the train moves slowly when the collision occurred near the station Mannheim, which is also one of the country's main railway junction.
AP news agency quoted the German national railways, Deutsche Bahn, said that a total of five carriages of a passenger train off the track. Two of them upside down. About 250 people were evacuated from the trains after the collision with the freight train.
