The Chinese General Consulate in Munich, Germany has announced that no Chinese citizen was involved in the deadly train collision in the southern German state of Bavaria.

The collision, which took place in Bad Aibing last Tuesday, killed 11 persons and injured 82 others but the Chinese consuls in Germany said not a single Chinese citizen was reported in the incident.

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Concerns about Chinese citizens killed or hurt in the collision surfaced as millions of Chinese people are traveling abroad, including in Germany, to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

The officials from the Chinese General Consulate said that based on information from local police of Rosenheim, there was no Chinese individual who was among the casualties in the collision.

The local police also said an investigation was still ongoing to determine what caused the collision and considering that the trains have automatic safety system.

The said system was designed to avoid head-on collisions to prevent any accident. Initial investigation showed that the system failed to prevent the incident, causing the two trains to collide on a single-track line at full speed, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.

Alexander Dobrindt, Germany's Transport Minister, said there was no sign of a technical failure or errors in the signal operation by of the train drivers so far.

Investigators were also checking information from the trains' black boxes.

As millions of Chinese are traveling abroad for the Spring Festival, Chinese authorities are also closely monitoring accidents and incidents overseas that would involve Chinese tourists.

Recently, six Chinese tourists were rescued after the small boat they were riding on capsized on the way to a scenic island in Cambodia. The Chinese tourists were safe and did not need medical attention.

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