German Rescue Workers Begin Clearing Train Wreck

ESCHEDE, Germany (Reuters) - German rescue workers on Friday prepared to clear away the mangled carriages of a high-speed luxury train that crashed two days ago leaving 95 known dead in Germany‘s worst post-war rail wreck. Rescue workers toiling under ...

ESCHEDE, Germany (Reuters) - German rescue workers on Friday prepared to clear away the mangled carriages of a high-speed luxury train that crashed two days ago leaving 95 known dead in Germany‘s worst post-war rail wreck. Rescue workers toiling under floodlights overnight uncovered a grim scene of barely recognisable corpses crushed in the restaurant car of the train, the final carriage to be removed from the mass of tangled steel and concrete. German railway officials said there was mounting evidence that a damaged wheel caused the country‘s worst train accident since World War Two. They cited possible material fatigue and did not rule out a deliberate act of sabotage. A rescue committee official said the operation was coming to an end and they did not expect to find any more bodies. Acknowledging the possibility of defect in the train, German Railways ordered 60 of its fleet of sleek Inter City Express trains to be taken into repair shops for examination, causing long delays during commuter traffic on Friday morning. The crash of a Hamburg-bound Inter City Express luxury train, which had 13 carriages, the restaurant car and two locomotives, also left 43 people seriously injured. Railway officials have still not been able to say conclusively how many people were on board the train when it derailed on Wednesday morning and slammed into a road bridge, which then collapsed, crushing the people inside. Medical examiners have not also been able to positively identify any of the dead recovered from the crash. Police have been interviewing relatives in the hope of finding distinguishing marks such as scars, tattoos or other features that could lead to identification. German Railways announced it was halting the first generation of the seven- -year-old high-speed trains for inspections. In Eschede, hundreds of local residents held a prayer service on Thursday evening.

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