Germany train crash kills at least two, injures 20

A passenger train collided on a crossing with an agriculturesl vehicle transporting manure in western Germany, killing at least two people, injuring 20, police said on Saturday.

The train, which was en route from Osnabrueck in northwestern Germany to Ibbenbueren - a small town about 23 km (15 miles) away - crashed outside Ibbenbueren, police said.

It came to a standstill on the tracks 200-300 metres (yards) away from the crash site.

Of the 20 people injured, 3 are seriously injured, police said. Everybody who was on board the train at the time of the crash has now disembarked and the injured are being treated at the crash site or in hospital, police said.