A member of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief looks into a passenger train that is turned on its side after it collided with a freight train in the village of Hordorf near the east German town of Oschersleben. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: Reuters
A member of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief looks into a passenger train that is turned on its side after it collided with a freight train in the village of Hordorf near the east German town of Oschersleben. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: Reuters
Members of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief walk near the wreckage of a passenger train and a freight train after they collided in the village of Hordorf near the east German town of Oschersleben. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: Reuters
Investigators gather evidence around the wreckage of a passenger train that collided with a freight train in the village of Hordorf near the east German city of Magdeburg. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: Reuters
Staff members of the Deutsche Bahn train operator inspect the site where a passenger train collided with a freight train in the village of Hordorf near the east German city of Magdeburg. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: Reuters
Members of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief walk between the wreckage of a passenger train and a freight train after they collided in the village of Hordorf near the east German town of Oschersleben. At least ten people died in a head-on train collision in eastern Germany, with some 40 injured, according to authorities. Photo: Reuters
The silhouettes of casualties are seen in the snow in front of an overturned passenger train after a train crash in Hordorf near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The head-on train crash killed ten people and injured more than 30 people on Saturday evening. A passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned. Photo: AP
A rescue worker inspects the overturned engine of a passenger train after a train crash in Hordorf near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The head-on train crash killed ten people and injured more than 30 people on Saturday evening. A passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned. Photo: AP
Police officers inspect the overturned engine of a passenger train after a train crash in Hordorf, near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: AP
A rescuer inspects the area of a train crash, while silhouettes of casualties are seen in the snow, in Hordorf near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: AP
Police officers inspect the engine of a cargo train after a crash with a passenger train in Hordorf, near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: AP
Police and rescuers stand in front of a train wreckage in Hordorf, near Oschersleben, eastern Germany. The passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, killing up to 10 people and injured more than 30 others. Photo: AP
Published Jan 30, 2011
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A head-on collision between a cargo and a passenger train killed 10 people and injured 40 others in eastern Germany, police said Sunday. Authorities believe the death toll could rise in one of the country's worst train accidents. The trains crashed in heavy fog late Saturday on a single-line track near the village of Hordorf, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg. It's about 200 kilometers southwest of Berlin, Germany's capital.
The front rows of the first passenger compartment were crushed and several seats were lying outside the train. The dark imprints of some of the bodies that had been removed could be seen on the white frosty ground next to the crash site. The noise of the collision was heard in Oschersleben village, more than about seven kilometers away.
