Hamburg: 12 hurt as train collides with lorry in Germany

A train collided with a lorry at a crossing in Germany on Tuesday, leaving at least 12 people hurt, emergency services said.

The fire department of the northern city-state of Hamburg said “12 people have been hurt, 10 of them lightly”.

Around 80 fire service personnel were on the scene, it added on social media platform X.

The Deutsche Bahn train company said the accident happened at a road crossing in Hamburg’s southern Roenneburg area on the route towards Bremen.

According to the Bild daily around 300 people were on board the inter-city express train at the time of the accident.

The Hamburger Abendblatt daily reported that the truck belonged to a company making railway tracks.

Pictures of the aftermath showed track components and debris strewn around the site, as well as extensive damage to the lorry.