Train crash death toll rises to six

Six people were killed and 15 others injured today when two passenger trains collided in Germany.

The engine and a carriage of one of the trains derailed in the crash, which happened shortly after noon between the towns of Schrozberg and Niederstetten, west of Nuremberg. The engine slid down an embankment.

“There is no indication at the moment why the two trains crashed,” said police spokesman Hans-Ulrich Stuiber.

Several of the injured were seriously hurt, rescue officials said.

An official from Germany’s Deutsche Bahn national railway company confirmed that six people had died and 15 were injured.

It was not immediately clear how many people were on board the two trains, which were travelling on a single-track local branch line.