Train crash in Germany kills at least 9, injures nearly 90

“This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region”.

It was not immediately known what caused the accident near Bad Aibling in Bavaria. Rescue crews using helicopters and small boats shuttled injured passengers to the other side of the Mangfall river to waiting ambulances.

German news agency dpa reported that one train derailed in the crash Tuesday morning, and several wagons overturned.

According to German media reports, rescue efforts were initially hampered by the several carriage cars turned over in the collision and the remote location of the crash.

“I don’t think that (they) were on full speed, but looking at what has happened, they have been not very slow, let’s say it that way”, he said.

Local police have reported several people were killed and many others injures.

Liam also told Premier how Destiny Church will respond to the tragedy: “People in the Church coming together to pray, pastoral support and comfort, and indeed hopefully be able to be there as people have many questions and, as the Word says, mourn with those who mourn, and cry with those who are shedding tears”.

Helicopters have been ferrying rescue workers to the crash scene, where they are working to free people trapped in the wreckage and take the injured to hospitals.

Black boxes from both trains have been recovered and will be investigated by German authorities to determine why the system didn’t prevent the crash.

“Once that is done then the investigators can begin their work”, federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told the AP from the scene.

How the two trains came to collide head-on on a single rail line was still unclear, said Christian Schreyer, board chairman for Transdev, which operates the railway.

Dobrindt, however, said it was too early to draw a definitive conclusion. “We are doing everything to help the commuters, their relatives and staff”, chief executive Bernd Rosenbusch was quoted as saying.

German police say the death toll from a head-on train crash in the southern state of Bavaria has risen to nine.

In Munich, the city blood center put out an urgent call for donors in the wake of the crash.

A rescue helicopter flies toward the site where two regional trains crashed near Bad Aibling, southern Germany, Tuesday morning, February 9, 2016.