The passenger train rammed into the lorry in north of Bavaria. Photo: Reuters

Chancellor Angela Merkel extracted a compromise from her coalition partners to set up migrant processing centers in Germany, easing domestic discord as she pursues regional solutions to Europe’s refugee crisis with countries such as Turkey.Three to five “reception facilities” will be set up, including two in Bavaria -- where thousands cross daily -- to accelerate the processing of applications by people from so-called safe-origin countries including Albania and Serbia. They will face residency Read more [...]

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At least two people were killed in an accident in Germany when a train collided with a truck. Police said a train in northern Bavaria hit a heavy goods truck that was carrying a US military vehicle. Police spokesperson Albert Bueck explained what happened: "Yesterday evening, at around 10, a heavy goods vehicle came to a standstill on a railway crossing. A regional train came and hit the front of it, dragging it for several hundred metres. Both vehicles caught fire. The truck is completely burnt Read more [...]

By Andrew Jay RosenbaumANKARAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, along with the heads of all the ruling coalition parties, has announced a new policy to speed up processing of refugees.A meeting late on Thursday brought together Merkel, leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the leftist Social Democrats (SPD), and Horst Seehofer, prime minister of Bavaria and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU).At Read more [...]

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(Updates with death toll, police statement)BERLIN Nov 6 (Reuters) - A passenger train collided with an articulated lorry at a railway crossing in northern Bavaria late on Thursday, killing two people and injuring several others, police said on Friday.The train was carrying around 40 people when it rammed into a lorry that had stopped on the railway tracks near Freihung, northeast of Nuremberg at around 2100 GMT on Thursday evening, police said. The trailer was separated from the Read more [...]

A train crash in northern Bavaria on Thursday night killed at least one person and wounded several more, German media reported.

The passenger train collided with a lorry at a railway crossing northeast of Nuremberg.

Both the train and the lorry caught fire.

The train was travelling at around 100 kilometres per hour, according to police.

Picture: AFP Berlin. At least one person died and twenty sustained injuries in a train and truck collision in Germany, Oberfalznetz news portal announcing, citing the German police. According to initial reports, the train that was carrying some fifty people crashed into a truck of the US army without reducing its speed late on Thursday. Both vehicles caught fire after the collision. A helicopter took some sixteen seriously injured passengers to a local hospital Read more [...]

Authorities said a flatbed truck hauling a military vehicle was hit by a regional passenger train late Thursday at a railway crossing in Bavaria. Preliminary reports say at least two bodies had been found and four people were seriously injured in the crash and subsequent explosion. About 40 people were on the train when it struck the vehicle, which may have been stuck on the tracks, police said. "It hurtled into the truck at 100 km per hour [62 mph] without braking," a spokesman for the police Read more [...]