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09:32, 06-Dec-2017
Nearly 50 injured in train collision in western Germany
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Nearly 50 people were injured as a passenger train collided with a freight train near the city of Duesseldorf in western Germany on Tuesday evening.
The train was carrying 155 people. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) near the community of Meerbusch-Osterathnear, about 10 km northwest of Dusseldorf.
Access by emergency services to the train was hindered by ruptured contact wires which first had to be made safe to prevent electric shocks, according to the Meerbusch fire department.