German high-speed train derailed

The train driver and tractor driver were both reported hurt

A high-speed German train has come off the rails after a collision, say German police.

The train was travelling between Karlsruhe and the Swiss city of Basel when the accident happened at Efringen-Kirchen in the south-west.

The train slammed into a tractor which was blocking the tracks, and came off the rails.

The train driver and tractor driver were both hurt.The tractor driver suffered the most serious injuries.

The cone-shaped nose of the white train was badly damaged.

The InterCityExpress (ICE) train went off the tracks on the route between Basel and the southern German town of Freiburg, Helmut Mutter, a police spokesman told Reuters news agency.

A vineyard worker lost control of his tractor on a hill and crashed onto the tracks at about 0935 (0735 GMT), he said.

"It's a region filled with curves and the train was going no faster than 80kph (50 miles an hour)," he added.

More than 100 people were killed in June 1998 in Germany's worst rail crash, when a high-speed train travelling from Munich to Hamburg went off the rails at Eschede.