German train crash toll rises to five

The death toll from a German train derailment near a Bavarian Alpine resort climbed to five as a further body was recovered from the wreckage, police said. Investigators were combing the overturned carriages for victims and clues as to the cause of accident near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a region gearing up to host the G7 summit in late June. “At the moment we do not believe there were further victims, but I cannot yet say for sure,” regional deputy police chief Frank Hellwig told reporters. He said four of the dead were women, with another 44 people injured, some of them children. The accident occurred just after midday as school holidays were starting in the two southern German regions Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria. – AFP