The number of victims in the collision of passenger and freight trains in Germany exceeded 50 people. About this newspaper Bild, citing Federal police.
The incident occurred in the station area of the city of Meerbusch in North Rhine — Westphalia. Crashed passenger train, international transport company National Express and freight train DB Cargo.
Earlier it was reported that the rescue operation is complicated by the sagging electric cables. At the emergency continue to arrive to the emergency services.
The passenger train was carrying 100 to 200 people.
Background: Germany was faced passenger and freight trains