- Test train' derailed, plunged into canal outside Eckwersheim, Strasbourg
- Not known what caused it to come off its tracks or if the death toll will rise
- Photographs showed rescue workers approaching wreckage on dinghies

At least five people were killed and seven injured after a train derailed and plunged into a canal in France, according to local reports.
Photographs of the wreckage show its carriages half submerged in the water outside Eckwersheim, Strasbourg.
Rescue workers were seen approaching the mangled train on rubber dinghies and tending to the wounded by the side of the canal.



A train has derailed near the French city of Strasbourg, killing five and injuring seven


Rescue workers assist a victim near the wreckage of a test TGV train that derailed and crashed in France today




Rescue workers search the wreckage of a test TGV train that derailed and crashed in a canal outside Eckwersheim near Strasbourg
The train came off the tracks because it was travelling at 'excessive speed' but it is not known whether the final death toll will rise, it was reported.

SNCF, France's national state owned railway, refused to provide further details. The train crashed on the new high speed line between Paris and Strasbourg which has never been used before.

It derailed while crossing a bridge and its carriages fell into the Marne-Rhine canal, witnesses have said.

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