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Hordorf train collision information


2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision
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Date29 January 2011
~ 22:25
LocationHordorf, Saxony-Anhalt
Coordinates52°00′02″N 11°11′30″E / 52.00056°N 11.19167°E / 52.00056; 11.19167
CountryGermany
LineMagdeburg–Thale railway
OperatorVeolia Verkehr Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH / Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter
Incident typeCollision
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Trains2
Deaths10
Injured23
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On 29 January 2011, a freight train and a passenger train collided near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line. The passenger train derailed in the collision. Ten people were killed and 43 people were injured, some of them critically.

Initial reports of 33 injured persons[1][2] were later corrected to 23, some of them critical.[3] Around 100 rescue workers were at the collision site, which is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Berlin.[2]

  1. ^ "German train crash near Magdeburg leaves 10 dead". BBC News. 30 January 2011. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Train crash in Germany kills 10, injures 33". Associated Press. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  3. ^ Hein, Dörthe; Thomas Struk (30 January 2011). "Hordorf erschüttert: Tragisches Zugunglück gibt viele Rätsel auf". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2011. Laut Polizei wurden 23 Menschen verletzt, einige von ihnen schwer, darunter soll ein zehnjähriges Mädchen sein [According to the police 23 persons were injured, some of them severely, allegedly a ten-year-old girl is among them].

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