At least 10 people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria.
The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich.
The transport minister said the trains had crashed into each other while both travelling at around 100km/h (62mph).
Emergency teams, some winched in by helicopter, worked for hours to free casualties from the wreckage.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "dismayed and saddened" by the crash.
A doctor at one of four hospitals in the region said 54 people were being treated, eight of them with serious injuries.
One person is still missing, police say.
The drivers of both trains and two train guards were among those killed, police said.
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who visited the scene, said it was a "horrifying sight".
"The drivers' cabs of both trains are wedged into each other. One side of one train is completely torn open. The other train bored into it," he told a news conference.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the same conference it was "difficult to comprehend" how such a crash could happen given the amount of investment in railway safety following previous train accidents.
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