At least three people killed after train derails in southern Germany | Germany

Police said that three people were killed and several people were injured when they came out of the rail in a forested area in southwest Germany on Sunday.

About 18.10 local time near Redlingen Town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, when an accident occurred at 18.10, approximately 100 passengers boarded the train.

The police, who contacted by AFP, said that four people were killed before correcting their statements to three victims. Authorities refused to explain the number of wounded or how serious they were damaging.

The German railway operator Deutsche Bahn confirmed a few deaths and numerous injuries. The two railway cars were “for unknown reasons”.

Authorities were currently investigating the conditions of the accident, the operators and traffic was suspended for a 40 km (25 miles) away from the route.

According to air services, the German media reported that a landslide could cause an accident when violent storms in the region are swept.

When the passenger train came out of the rail in a forested area, the German town was traveling from Sigmaringen to Ulm.

In an article on social media, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed our condolences to the families of the killed.

He added that he is in close contact with both internal and transportation ministers and wanted to özgüm all the support they need to emergency services ”.

Images taken from the scene of the accident, firefighters and emergency services trying to reach passengers, lying next to the yellow and gray -colored train cars showed.

According to the local TV station SWR, the helicopters came to move the wounded to hospitals in the region shortly after the accident, and emergency doctors were warned from nearby hospitals.

German transportation is regularly criticized by passengers due to outdated infrastructure, travelers face frequent train delays and various technical problems.

The government promised to invest a few hundred billion euros in the next few years to modernize the infrastructure.

In June 2022, a Bavaria Alpine in Southern Germany came out of the rail near the holiday, killed four people and wounded dozens of.

Germany’s most deadly railway accident in 1998, a high -speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn belonging to the state, Eschede’de Lower Saxony in the rail and killed 101 people.