Two trains travelling at high speeds crashed head-on Tuesday on a single track in one of Germany's deadliest accidents in years, with one slicing the other apart, ripping a large gash in its side.
All bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, police said, adding that 17 people were severely injured and 63 slightly hurt in the collision near the southern spa town of Bad Aibling.
Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the line was fitted with an automatic braking system that should have prevented such accidents and investigators were probing whether the mechanism malfunctioned or whether there had been human error.