At least 3 dead, dozens more injured after the train tracks

At least three people have died and several others are injured after a train with about 100 passengers was tracked.

According to reports from Associated PressThe AFP And local withdrawals DJA regional expression that travels in the German state of Baden-Wüerttemberg partly tracked in a forest area about 18:10 local time on Sunday July 27.

The train was on its way to Ulm, a German city, when the incident occurred in Riedlingen, a city with about 11,000 people, the stores reported.

About 50 people were injured, with 25 affected serious injuries, per stores, which quoted a regional district fire manager.

In a statement to people, a spokesman for the German train operator Deutsche Bahn confirmed “several fatal accidents and many injuries.” The company added that the train cars tracked “for reasons still unclear.”

The authorities are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident, the representative told People.

“We therefore ask for your understanding that we cannot comment on further details right now,” added the company’s spokesman.

Storms passed through the area before the accident, and the investigators are now investigating whether rain could have been a factor in the reflection. German media reported that a landslide that originated from the serious storms may even have caused the accident, AFP reported.

“There has been heavy rain here, so it cannot be ruled out that the powerful rain and a related landlord accident may have been the cause,” said Thomas Strobl, the Interior Minister in Badenwürttenberg, according to AP. “But this is currently the subject of ongoing investigations.”

German media reported that helicopters arrived at the scene shortly after the accident to transport the injured to nearby hospitals.

Florian Gebhard, head of trauma surgery at Ulm University Hospital, where the injured were taken, told German State’s transmitter SWR That many involved in the crash “was under shock”, per dw.

“The damage (was) of varying severity. Most of them suffered damage to their extremities, back injuries and head injuries,” the hospital worker added.

Photos taken at the site of the accident show yellow and gray train cars located on their sides when firefighters and emergency staff work to remove passengers.

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The train service has been canceled for the line, Deutsche Bahn told People.

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz commented on the reflection in a post about X and wrote that he worked with local officials to support rescue efforts.

“The train accident in the Biberach district shocks me,” Merz wrote in German. “I am in close contact with the Minister of the Interior and the Transport Minister and have asked them to support the rescue forces with all available means.”

“We mourn the victims. I express my condolences to their relatives,” he added.