Trains collide in Germany, killing 2 and injuring 14

May 08, 2018 12:17 pm | Updated 12:19 pm IST - Berlin

 Emergency services attend the scene after a cargo train and a passenger train collided in Aichach, 50km west of Munich, southern Germany, Monday, May 7, 2018.

Emergency services attend the scene after a cargo train and a passenger train collided in Aichach, 50km west of Munich, southern Germany, Monday, May 7, 2018.

Authorities say two people have died and 14 have been injured after a passenger train hit a stationary cargo train in southern Germany late Monday.

Police said those killed were the driver of the passenger train and a female passenger. One of the injured is in a serious condition.

Markus Trieb, a spokesman for northern Swabia police, said Tuesday that the passenger train was traveling from Augsburg to Ingolstadt when it hit the cargo train near a station in the town of Aichach.

In a separate incident in Bavaria, two people were killed Monday when a train hit their car at a crossing near Lake Starnberg.

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