German Train Collision Death Toll Rises to 10

According to the Bavarian police, the total number of people, who died in the train wreckage in southern Germany has reached 10.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A passenger rescued from the train wreckage after a collision in southern Germany succumbed on Tuesday to the wounds, bringing up the total death toll to 10, the Bavarian police said in a statement.

"Nine people died before they could be retrieved [from the debris], another person died during the day at a hospital," the statement read, adding 17 others are in intensive care and 63 are lightly injured.

Search continues for one person who is missing hours after the rescue operation near the town of Bad Aibling began. Police said there was little hope of finding him or her alive.

Two trains operated by the regional train company Meridian in Bavaria crashed head-on as they travelled at a high speed on a single-track route, in what has become one of the deadliest rail accidents in Germany’s modern history.

Up to 700 emergency personnel – rescuers, firefighters, police and other agencies – were called to the scene to pull passengers from the wrecked train carriages that had derailed on the impact.

Criminal police have taken over the investigation that aims to determine the details of the lethal collision on the track between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen. No comment on the purported cause of the accident was released.