MAE: A Romanian woman was injured in the train crash in Germany

A Romanian woman was injured in the railway accident produced in Germany on Tuesday, the Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) said on Wednesday.

“The Consulate General of Romania in Munich has undertaken specific steps upon the locally competent authorities to check whether in the accident Romanian citizens were involved. According to the information received during the day by the Romanian consular office from the representatives of local police, among those injured a woman with Romanian citizenship was identified. At present, she is hospitalized in a medical unit, her condition is serious but stable. The Consulate General of Romania in Munich is in touch with the family of the Romanian citizen and with hospital representatives where she is hospitalized and is prepared to provide specialized consular assistance, within the limit of legal competence,” the MAE informs.

A serious rail accident occurred Tuesday evening in Bavaria. The accident occurred at 6.48h, between Holzkirchen – Rosenheim, near the wastewater treatment plant at Bad Aibling. Two passenger trains collided and several cars have derailed.

Police in Upper Bavaria said on Wednesday that “no one else is missing” at the site of Tuesday’s head-on train collision. In total, 10 people were killed, 18 seriously wounded and another 63 suffered more minor injuries in the crash, dw.com reports.

“There will be no eleventh body,” a spokesperson for Upper Bavaria police said, adding that authorities were reasonably confident that all of the injured would survive. “We can be optimistic.”

Investigations into possible causes for the crash are ongoing, although police sources told German media that initial evidence pointed to the possibility of “human error.”

Police said commuter numbers could have been much higher, were it not for Bavaria’s Fasching version of Carnival celebrations. The crash also coincided with school holidays.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “dismayed and sad” about the crash, also thanking emergency services for their “tireless” work at the scene.

“My sympathy rests above all with the families of those who have lost their lives,” Merkel said. “My thoughts are also with the many injured, who are wrestling with the crash’s consequences. I wish them as swift and complete a recovery as possible.”