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A passenger train and a heavy-duty lorry both caught fire after colliding at a railway crossing in northern Bavaria, Germany, late Thursday evening. 

The 30-year-old lorry driver was killed and another body was found in the train driver’s cab, said local police.

The train was carrying around 50 people when it rammed into the lorry.

Several train passengers were injured. 

A passenger train struck a heavy lorry at a rail crossing late 05 November in southern Germany, leaving at least one person dead and multiple injured, police said

The lorry was believed to have stopped in the crossing before the collision, which was followed by an explosion

Police said about 50 people were aboard the train, which was on a regional line

Policemen and fireworkers stand beside the destroyed cockpit of a regional train near the village Freihung, southern Germany, November 6, 2015

A military vehicle sits on flat bed trailer which was involved in the collision of a truck with a regional train near Freihung, east of Nuremberg, southern Germany, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015

The trailer was separated from the lorry due to the force of the collision and dragged several hundred meters by the regional train.

Authorities say the flatbed truck hauling a military vehicle may have been stuck on the railway tracks.