Probe after German train crash kills 10

GERMAN accident investigators began yesterday probing the cause of a head-on crash between a regional passenger train and a freight train that killed 10 people and injured 40.

Interior Minister Holger Hovelmann warned against jumping to conclusions after the head of the regional government blamed human error as the likely cause of the crash.

Wolfgang Boehmer told journalists that the disaster late on Saturday night was probably caused by one of the trains ignoring a red stop light on the section of single track where the crash occurred at high speed.