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2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision

2011 CE · Germany, Europe · Disaster

2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision
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On 29 January 2011, a freight train and a passenger train collided near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line. The passenger train derailed in the collision. Ten people were killed and 43 people were injured, some of them critically.

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