{"id":302776,"date":"2025-07-30T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302776\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:34:12","slug":"train-derailment-that-killed-3-in-germany-apparently-was-caused-by-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302776\/","title":{"rendered":"Train derailment that killed 3 in Germany apparently was caused by landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BERLIN &#8212; Investigators believe a landslide brought on by heavy rainfall likely caused <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-train-derailment-38e8960c549b4d1c43e0b7172b18b19a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a regional train to derail in southern Germany<\/a>, killing three people and injuring 41 more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More than 100 people were aboard the Deutsche Bahn train when at least two carriages derailed Sunday evening in a forested area <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">near Riedlingen<\/a>, about 158 kilometers (98 miles) west of Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The train&#8217;s 32-year-old driver, a 36-year-old apprentice and a 70-year-old passenger were killed, police said Monday. Some of the 41 injured were seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the downpours in the area caused a sewage shaft to overflow, likely triggering the landslide of an embankment where the derailment occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was no evidence of an external influence that could have caused the derailment, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Photos from the scene showed parts of the train on its side as rescuers climbed atop the carriages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cSuch pictures shake us to the core,\u201d Deutsche Bahn CEO Richard Lutz said Monday, offering his condolences to the victims\u2019 families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He pledged full support for the effort to clear up the cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN &#8212; Investigators believe a landslide brought on by heavy rainfall likely caused a regional train to derail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[111630,3907,2000,299,4179,1824,27085,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-302776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-111630","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-rail-accidents","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939852544246526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}