At least 10 killed in German train collision
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A passenger and a freight train collided with each other late Saturday in eastern Germany, leaving at least 10 people dead and about 20 seriously injured, police said.
The two trains clashed head on at around 22:30 local time (2130 GMT) near the town of Oschersleben in the Germany's eastern state Saxony-Anhalt.
German news television N-TV reported that more than 100 rescue workers gathered at the site and the injured have been taken to hospitals.
An eyewitness told local media that the crash happened not far from the train station of Hordorf, where one of the two trains was derailed and ran into the other.
Some wreckage of both trains were in flames. The force of the collision pushed some carriages of the trains out of the tracks.
The regional passenger train, known as HarzElbeExpress, was on its way from Magdeburg, the capital of the state, to Halberstadt, with some 40 passengers, while the freight one belongs to a private company and has been loaded with kalk, a police spokesman told German news agency DPA.
The entire route where the collision occurred was blocked and buses have carried unhurt passengers to nearby stations, according to the passenger train's operator Veolia Transport Group. The HarzElbeExpress has been operated since December 2005.
The reason for the collision was not immediately known.
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