(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 lorry due to the force of
the collision and dragged several hundred metres by the
passenger train. Both vehicles then caught fire, police said.

The 30-year-old lorry driver was killed and another body was
found in the train driver’s cab, they said. The lorry’s
co-driver escaped with light injuries.

Of the sixteen passengers treated for injuries, four were
taken to hospital but their condition is not critical, police
said.

(Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and
Hugh Lawson)