At least five people died and several more were injured after a passenger train derailed in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Alpine region of Bavaria. The incident has sparked large-scale rescue operations, DW reports.
Several people were killed and 40 more were injured on Friday when a regional passenger train derailed in the southern German state of Bavaria.
The death toll rose to five on Saturday after police recovered a further body.
The recovery effort has been difficult because one of the overturned carriages had to be lifted off the ground first.
Several people are still missing.
Authorities now say three people are being treated for serious injuries in hospital, down on the 15 initially reported. Around 140 passengers were on board at the time of the accident.
A police spokesperson said a major operation to free people from the wreckage had been completed.
"As far as we can tell, all the people have been rescued from the train," the spokesperson said, adding that removing the overturned wagons, however, would "certainly take a few days."
On Saturday, however, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said it was possible that there could still be bodies trapped under overturned wagons, saying some seven people were still unaccounted for.
He said that all four people confirmed dead were adult women, although many children are known to have been on board the train.
