Three people were killed and 41 others injured when a regional passenger train derailed in southwestern Germany on Sunday, July 27, police said. The train driver, another member of the crew and a passenger were killed.
The passenger train was traveling from the German town of Sigmaringen to the city of Ulm. Approximately 100 passengers were onboard the train when the accident occurred just after 6:00pm local time near the town of Riedlingen in Baden-Württemberg state.
Deutsche Bahn, the German rail operator, confirmed several deaths and numerous injured. Two train carriages had derailed “for reasons yet unknown,” the company said.
German investigators later said that the train derailment was the result of a mudslide caused by heavy rains. “The water caused a landslide on the embankment near the tracks, which in turn probably caused the derailment,” the police in Ulm said in a statement.