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February 9, 2016

‘Several dead’, around 100 injured in train crash — Police

‘Several dead’, around 100 injured in train crash —  Police

A moving train on the 68 percent completed railway track of the Abuja – Kaduna fast train project launched by Vice President Namadi Sambo in Abuja on Thursday

Two trains collided in southern Germany on Tuesday, killing “several” people and injuring around 100, police said.

“We are now talking about 100 people who are slightly injured, a number of seriously injured people and several dead,” police spokesman Martin Winkler in the southern town of Rosenheim said.

The cause of the accident near Bad Aibling, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of Munich, was not immediately clear.