The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.More than 12 people were injured, most of them lightly, in a collision between a long-distance train and a semi-truck in a suburb of the northern German city of Hamburg on Tuesday.

One person has died after a high-speed train collided with a lorry on the outskirts of the northern German city of Hamburg on Tuesday, according to the fire brigade. The train passenger was resuscitated at the scene of the accident but succumbed to their injuries shortly afterwards,