50 injured in German train crash

More than fifty people have been injured, some of them seriously, when two two mountain cog-wheeled trains collided in southern Germany.

Police say the accident happened in a single-track tunnel between the Alpine towns of Garmisch and Greinau, in the state of Bavaria.

The company operating the trains the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway said the accident was probably caused by a mistake by the signal controller in Greinau, who had allowed an empty train to leave the station before the one coming from Garmisch had arrived.

The accident comes less than four months after an express train in Germany came off the tracks and ploughed into a house, killing nine people.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service