Nine people are dead, two are assumed missing and 50 seriously injured after a head-on collision between two trains in Germany's southern state of Bavaria, police said Tuesday.
Altogether, 100 to 150 people suffered injuries in the collision, police say. They estimate there were about 150 passengers on board the two trains.
The crash occurred shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday local time near the spa town of Bad Aibling, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of the Bavarian capital of Munich.
Speaking at a news conference, German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said one of the trains had "drilled" into the other, leaving a carriage "totally dismantled." He described the scene as a "horrible picture," saying it was estimated the trains had been traveling about 100 kph (62 mph) at the moment of impact.