Passenger train crashes with freight train – several injured

Rescue workers in Wesel district in major operation

Passenger train crashed with freight train

Three seriously injured after train crash

At the time of the collision, the locomotive was not on the same track as the passenger train, but was protruding into the path of the passenger train, a press spokesman for the Federal Police explained in response to an RTL query. 29 people were on board the train at the time.

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Three passengers were seriously injured and eleven people were slightly injured. Several rescue helicopters were also on site, but did not have to be deployed, the spokesman said. How exactly the accident happened has yet to be determined..