Death toll rising after trains collided head-on in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — German police say the death toll from a head-on train crash in the southern state of Bavaria has risen to nine.

Police tell dpa that about 150 people were injured when the trains crashed this morning, about 40 miles southeast of Munich.

A spokesman for German Federal Police in Bavaria says the crash happened “in an inaccessible region” and that rescue personnel are still getting passengers out of the trains.

German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrint says the two passenger trains were on a curve and it appears that neither had time to brake before they hit head-on.

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