A derailed practice is pictured close to Riedlingen close to Biberach an der Riss on July 27, 2025. The derailment of a passenger practice in southwestern Germany on July 27, 2025 night resulted in at the least three deaths and several other accidents, in accordance with the most recent report communicated by federal police to AFP. (Photograph by NonStopNews / AFP)
FRANKFURT, Germany — Three individuals have been killed and several other others injured when a regional passenger practice derailed in a wooded space in southwestern Germany on Sunday, police mentioned.
About 100 passengers have been aboard the practice, when the accident occurred at round 6:10 pm (1610 GMT) close to the city of Riedlingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg state.
Contacted by AFP, police initially mentioned 4 individuals had been killed earlier than correcting their assertion to a few victims.
Authorities declined to elaborate on the variety of injured or how severely damage they have been, although tabloid Bild cited emergency employees saying there have been 50 injured.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn confirmed a number of deaths and quite a few injured. Two practice carriages had derailed “for causes but unknown”, it added.
Authorities have been at present investigating the circumstances of the accident, the operator mentioned, and site visitors had been suspended over a 40-kilometer (25-mile) stretch of the route.
German media reported {that a} landslide may need precipitated the accident as extreme storms swept by the area, in accordance with climate providers.
The passenger practice was travelling from the German city of Sigmaringen to the town of Ulm when it derailed in a forested space.
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Outdated practice infrastructure
In a publish on social media, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed his condolences to the households of these killed.
He added that he was in shut contact with each the inside and transport ministers, and had requested them to “present the emergency providers with all of the assist they want.”
Footage from the scene of the accident confirmed yellow-and-grey-coloured practice carriages mendacity on their sides, as firefighters and emergency providers tried to get to the passengers.
Based on native TV station SWR, helicopters arrived shortly after the accident to move the injured to hospitals within the space, and emergency medical doctors from close by hospitals have been alerted.
German transport is usually criticised by passengers for its outdated infrastructure, with vacationers dealing with frequent practice delays, and numerous technical issues.
The federal government has pledged to speculate a number of hundred billion euros over the following few years, specifically to modernize infrastructure.
In June 2022, a practice derailed close to a Bavarian Alpine resort in southern Germany, killing 4 individuals and injuring dozens.
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Germany’s deadliest rail accident occurred in 1998 when a high-speed practice operated by state-owned Deutsche Bahn derailed in Eschede in Decrease Saxony, killing 101 individuals.
