STORY: Three people were killed and others seriously injured when a passenger train derailed in southwestern Germany on Sunday (July 27), police said in a statement.

There were around 100 people on board when two carriages left the tracks between the towns of Riedlingen and Munderkingen, near the corner of Germany that borders France and Switzerland, police in the city of Stuttgart said.

The train was on a roughly 90 km (55 miles) route between Sigmaringen and Ulm. The cause of the crash was under investigation, the police statement said.

German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn said in a statement there were "many injured" and its thoughts were with the victims and their loved ones. It was not clear what had caused the train to derail, it said, adding that it would support the authorities in their investigation.

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1. DERAILED TRAIN, EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WALKING ON TRACKS IN FRONT OF TRAIN

2. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ON TRACKS WITH FLASHLIGHTS

3. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL IN FRONT OF DERAILED TRAIN

4. DERAILED TRAIN

5. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL IN FRONT OF DERAILED TRAIN

6. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WALKING ON TRACKS

7. PAN FROM SLOPE TO EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ON TRACKS

8. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL STANDING IN CIRCLE

9. VARIOUS OF DERAILED TRAIN

10. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ON TRACKS

11. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WALKING ON ROAD WITH FLASHLIGHTS

12. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL CLEANING EQUIPMENT