Death toll in German train crash up to 10

Aerial view of rescue teams at the site where two trains collided head-on near Bad Aibling, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Several people have been killed and dozens were injured.

Aerial view of rescue teams at the site where two trains collided head-on near Bad Aibling, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Several people have been killed and dozens were injured.

The Latest on a train crash in Germany that has caused deaths and injuries (all times local):

Police say the death toll from a head-on train collision in southern Germany has risen to 10 after one of the people injured died in hospital.

Regional police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said one person is also still missing after the Tuesday morning crash and that police “have little more than hope” of finding the person alive in the wreckage.

Police say 88 people were injured in the crash, among them 9 seriously.

German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrint says the two passenger trains that crashed in Bavaria were on a curve and it appears that neither had time to brake before they hit head-on.

Dobrint told reporters in nearby Bad Aibling that speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph) were possible on the stretch where the two trains crashed early Tuesday morning, and since “the site is on a curve, we have to assume that the train drivers had no visual contact and hit each other without braking.”

He says the stretch was fitted with a safety system designed to automatically stop trains to prevent such a crash and it’s not clear why it didn’t function.

He says black boxes recovered from the trains should provide more answers once analyzed.

German police say the death toll from a head-on train crash in the southern state of Bavaria has risen to nine.

Federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told The Associated Press at the scene of the accident that the ninth body was still being removed from the train.

All survivors have now been taken to safety and investigators are beginning to look through the wreckage.

The city blood donation center in Munich has put out an urgent call for donors after a train crash near the city in southern Germany took at least eight lives and left 150 injured.

The Munich Blood Donation Service, which delivers blood products to local hospitals, said Tuesday on its website that there was “an acute increased need for life-saving blood products” after the accident near the town of Bad Aibling, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) to the southeast.

It asked donors to come “right now” to the donation center in the city’s downtown. The donation service is part of the city’s municipal clinic.

German police say all survivors of a morning train crash in Bavaria have now been rescued from the wreckage and taken to hospitals for treatment.

Federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told The Associated Press from the scene that crews were still trying to remove one body from one of the two trains involved in the head-on collision.

Authorities say at least eight people were killed in the crash and 150 injured; the cause is not yet known.Scharf says now that all the survivors have been taken to safety, authorities will begin trying to determine what went wrong.

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