Reporting from the scene, French journalist Aurélien Poivret said early indications suggest the train crash was not caused deliberately.
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A TGV high-speed train derailed near Eckwersheim in Northeast France on Saturday.
AFP news agency reported sources saying the crash is believed to be due to high speed.
Local media reports there are injured, but the numbers aren’t clear yet.
The train derailed while crossing a bridge, which saw multiple train cars fall into the Marne-Rhine canal, witnesses told the United Kingdom newspaper. The city’s mayor, Alain Fontanel, says via Twitter that there were “very numerous injuries and possible deaths”.
Photographs of the wreckage show its carriages half submerged in the water outside Eckwersheim, Strasbourg.
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The accident happened on a new high-speed line between Paris and Strasbourg, which hadn’t been used before.
