UPDATED:

BERLIN: German police say all survivors of a morning train crash in Bavaria have now been rescued from the wreckage and taken to hospitals for treatment.

Federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told The Associated Press from the scene that crews were still trying to remove one body from one of the two trains involved in the head-on collision.

Authorities say at least eight people were killed in the crash and 150 injured; the cause is not yet known.

Scharf says now that all the survivors have been taken to safety, authorities will begin trying to determine what went wrong.

Death toll in German train crash rises to 8

BERLIN: German police say the death toll in the train crash in southern Germany has risen to eight. Police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said 150 people were injured in the Tuesday morning crash, including 50 severely.

The two trains crashed head-on into each other shortly before 7 am on the single line that runs next to the Mangfall river in Bad Aibling, Bavaria.

10:50 am

Injured people are being carried by helicopter and boat from the inaccessible site of a train crash in southern Germany.

Rescue helicopters are carrying people on a rope across the Mangfall river to ambulances waiting on the other side, four hours after the two trains crashed head-on.

German news agency reported that the rail line is used by commuters going to Munich for work. Usually schoolchildren also take the trains, but they are currently on winter vacation.

9:50 am

German news agency dpa reports that four people have died in the head-on train crash in Bavaria.

Dpa, citing a federal police official on the scene, says that about 150 people were injured in the crash Tuesday morning between two regional trains near Bad Aibling, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of Munich.

A spokesman for German Federal Police in Bavaria, Matthias Knott, told the AP that the crash took place "in an inaccessible region" and that rescue personnel were still in the middle of getting passengers out of the trains.

9 am

Police spokesman Stefan Sonntag told The Associated Press that two regional trains crashed head-on on the single track between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen shortly before 7 am on Tuesday.

Sonntag said that at least two people had died in the crash, but that the scene of the accident was so confusing that he did not have any specific numbers of injured and dead yet.

"This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region and we have many emergency doctors, ambulances and helicopters on the scene," Sonntag said.

He said some people were still stuck inside the wreckage of the train and rescue personnel were trying to free them.

8:55 am

Police say at least two people have died and about 100 have been injured — 10 seriously — in a train crash in southern Germany.

German news agency dpa reported that two regional trains were involved in the crash Tuesday morning near Bad Aibling in Bavaria.

8:45 am

Police say several people have been injured in an early morning train crash in southern Germany.

They say two trains were involved in the crash near Bad Aibling, in Bavaria. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured.

German news agency dpa reported that one train derailed in the crash Tuesday morning, and several wagons overturned.

Dpa reported that eight rescue helicopters were standing on a lawn near the entrance to the town of Bad Aibling and further rescue staff were on the way to the scene of the crash.