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A TRAIN DERAILED near a Bavarian Alpine resort in southern Germany today, killing at least four people and injuring dozens.
Several carriages of the red-coloured local train were lying on their sides on a grassy area next to a highway.
Rescuers stood on the top-facing side of the carriages, using ladders to climb into the waggons to reach trapped passengers.
“In the serious train accident, as of 3.32 pm, four people were fatally injured,” said police in a statement.
“Around 30 passengers were injured, 15 of them so seriously that they have had to be admitted to nearby hospitals,” they said, adding that a huge rescue operation was underway.
The accident came as rail officials were nervously watching if a new €9 monthly public transport ticket valid across Germany would lead to overcrowded trains over the bank holiday weekend.
Stefan Sonntag of Upper Bavaria’s police force said the regional train was “very crowded and many people were using it, hence the high number of injured”.
School holidays are starting from tomorrow in the two southern German regions Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, raising fears children may count among the train passengers. But Sonntag said he did not have information on that.
The train had just left Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Munich when the accident took place in the Burgrain district of the resort town just past midday.
Part of the route between Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been blocked off and traffic diverted, said German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which was not yet able to provide a reason for the accident.
Popular mountain resort Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the surrounding regions have begun preparations to host the G7 summit of world leaders later this month.
From 26 to 28 June, the heads of state and government including US President Joe Biden are due to meet at Schloss Elmau — 11 kilometres (seven miles) from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Police and soldiers who had been deployed to prepare and secure the site ahead of the summit have now also been enlisted to help in the rescue operation.
Three helicopters from Austria’s Tyrol region have scrambled to the scene to provide first aid, according to media reports.
Germany’s deadliest rail accident happened in 1998 when a high-speed train operated by state-owned Deutsche Bahn derailed in Eschede in Lower Saxony, killing 101 people.
The most recent fatal crash took place on February 14, 2022, when one person was killed and 14 others hurt in a collision between two local trains near Munich.
In 2017, a passenger train and a stationary freight train collided near the western city of Duesseldorf injuring 41 people.
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Once a cl0wn, always a cl0wn.
@Greg Ward: over 4 hours before he called off the mob that stormed congress. The documentary on Netflix was a real eye opener
@Darren Mc Mahon: What’s that documentary called?
@Gerry from the Block: 4 hours at the capitol
So much winning. Bigly winning.
He’s so well known for only hiring the best, that it’s quite hard to understand what case they thought they had under 1st Amendment against a private company with terms and conditions of service, when.. some of the posts could be interpreted as actually breaking the 1st Amendment directly.
@Ixtrix Net:
He’s more well known for being a complete bullzh1ter.
Presumably the best law firms prefer to be sure of payment? They might not have much use for IOUs in spare rubles.
Twitter/Facebook etc. is the modern public forum more now than ever. It’s fascinating that a private company can shut up and ‘cancel’ a former president and a potential contender in a future election in a democratic society. These multimillion dollar companies have no democratic legitimately. It seems unsatisfactory that the state must comply with the requirements of the First Amendment but private companies of this nature and scale are free to regulate speech as they wish.
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan:
You do know the !st amendment is protection of most speech by and from the government? Like, nothing about private companies?
@Ixtrix Net: indeed, I had not suggested otherwise. It just seems unsatisfactory that speech can be regulated by private entities of such scale.
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan:
Private companies provide their Terms & Conditions you would be agreeing to abide by, in order to use the service. Or End Use Licence Agreement for other services, Or both.
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan: nothing stopping him launching his own free speech site if he doesn’t like the existing ones. OH WAIT
@Sean Nihill:
Oddly, that one bans accounts if criticize him, and I don’t just mean profanity laden rants.
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan: you don’t get this very simple concept, do you?
@Ixtrix Net: yeah! Eamon says that in his last sentence if you bothered to read it properly.
@james s:
Okay, I’ll bite, what do you mean? since I did read it.
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan: While still president of the US, he incited an angry mob to storm the Whitehouse and attempt a coup. Free speech has to have limits especially when the stability of a nation is at stake. But bedside’s all of that, he signed the T&C’s when he joined Twitter, just like everyone else.
@Declan Doherty:
Capitol building rather than Whitehouse, but yes,
What is interesting with this case being somehow about 1st amendment, rather than free speech on a platform, is there is an exception to the 1st amendment for ‘speech that incites imminent lawless action’
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan: it is actually pretty simple really, Eamonn. Their site, their rules, and if you don’t like it, you dont use their site.
It is probably explained better it the terms and conditions that you agree to when joining.
He broke their rules so they banned him.
Same thing would happen to you or I, if we did similar.
Now if you don’t understand that, well did you read the T&Cs when joining here? Or did you just click yes?
This man should be longtime in jail and never be involved in government not Evan lower level
@Anthony Ross: curious, in jail for what?
@james s: you really can’t think of one thing he should be in prison for?
@Craic_a_tower: don’t leave it up to me, give us an example. Without any name calling.
Best news I’ve read all day..
What a Looser, thought he had his own social network now
El Lon Musktard’s deal can’t be completed until October 24th at the earliest, so it’s unlikely to have much effect on the midterms.
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