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Police: No urgent suspicion, dispatcher,
After the train wreck in Bad Aibling are the salvage operations are in full swing. The third black box is sought, the investigations are run. The police includes human error.
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Bad Aibling: search for cause goes on
After the first interviews with the police arises in the context of the train wreck of Bad Aibling, there is no urgent suspicion against the dispatcher, unlike previously reported. “We are fighting back vehemently against this rumor,” said police spokesman Jürgen Thalmeier at the scene of the incident in terms of appropriate reports. An error or Offense of the person on duty could not be excluded and the investigation stood still at the beginning.
Immediately after the collision of two local trains the signaller have been asked. An urgent suspicion arises from not stressed Thalmeier.
A 50-member special Commission of the judicial police, am now working on the case, gave Bavaria’s interior Minister Joachim Herrmann known. There is also now the identity of nine of the ten victims. It is men aged 24 to 60 years, as Thalmeier said. It all stemmed from the Region. Among them were also the two train drivers, as well as an instructional driver, who is routinely one of the two men on their journey accompanied.
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Third Blckbox missed
The public Prosecutor of Traunstein does not want to continue to the stage of the investigation to comment. “On the exact cause can at present there are no statements to be made, the investigations are still at the beginning,” it said in a press release from the police headquarters of upper Bavaria in the South.
To information, according to which the train accident due to human error, wanted the Prosecutor to say anything. Media speculate that the tragedy on the line Holzkirchen-Rosenheim, due to human error had been triggered. Currently, to determine the officials also in the interlocking of Bad Aibling. Also would currently black boxes from the trains is evaluated. “That takes time, and this time, as we are.” One of three black boxes is still among the wreckage of suspected.
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Horst Seehofer at the Unfalstelle
Seehofer: “The Land mourns”
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and the Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Claudia Roth, visited the scene of the incident. In an almost hour and a half conversation with the rescue team informed Seehofer and other politicians about the use in Bad Aibling. “The Land mourns, and is troubled,” said Seehofer, according to a spokeswoman at the time behind closed doors in the town hall of the upper Bavarian municipality, the Federal Minister of transport Alexander Dobrindt, the Bavarian Minister of the interior Joachim Herrmann and Bavaria Wirtschaftsmnisterin Ilse Aigner, as well as numerous representatives of other parties participated. 700 helpers were in use. They had the recognition of all Germany said Seehofer and paid tribute to the tremendous psychological and human performance.
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On Wednesday, a first special crane of the German railway at the site of the accident, as the company announced. The morning was waiting for the Prosecutor, the scene of the accident releases. On Tuesday, they had to Work as extremely difficult, because the crash site in a wooded area on a sloping hillside beside the River Mangfall. The salvage of the wreckage will probably take several days.
Police: injured are out of danger
The police expects, meanwhile, not further fatalities. “There is no one more missing,” said a spokesman. After all the particulars matched were likely to be no more sacrifices in the two trains. “There will be no eleventh corpse.” After a victim on Tuesday night in the hospital had died, the number of injured is now at 17. The police spokesman was confident that they all will survive. “We must be optimistic.” 63 travellers were also slightly injured.
It is the heaviest Bahnunglück in Bavaria for more than 40 years. On Tuesday morning, there were two trains of the private Bayerische Oberlandbahn on the single-railed distance between Holzkirchen and Rosenheim at high speed head-on into one another crashed.
pab/qu (dpa)