Freight trains collide, tank wagon explodes in Germany

A freight train collided onto another on Wednesday night, resulting in powerful explosion near the railway station of Bleicherode, at Nordhausen in the north of Thuringia, Germany. One or more tank wagons fully-loaded with gasoline at the rear of the trains caught in raging flames, as the fire spread onto several other coaches, a spokesman of local railway administration said. The locomotive driver suffered injury during the train accident, which occurred just beside the railway station, and the residential houses nearby were endangered but eventually remained not touched by the roaring flames. Fire brigade, emergence rescue staff and police rushed to the site shortly afterwards, and the firemen quickly laid out the foam blanket and put the fire under control. Buses has been employed in place of the train at the accident-severed section for temporary traffic use.