Two seriously injured in German train crash

BERLIN, Nov 20 (Reuters) As many as nine people were injured today, two of them seriously, after a commuter train crashed into a maintenance vehicle in south Berlin, police and fire department officials said.

A fire department spokeswoman said rescue workers were at the site of the accident, the Suedkreuz commuter train station. She said six to nine people were injured.

A police spokesman said two people were seriously injured and the others had minor injuries. He said the cause of the accident was under investigation.

Further details were not immediately available.

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