German rail crash blamed on dispatcher 'playing mobile phone game'

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ivLCTz1M0_mPeqwA38SiDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/2ce66a8048e6462bd53a40bfd31326451ff09342.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/german-rail-crash-blamed-dispatcher-playing-mobile-phone-192105028.html)A German railway dispatcher blamed for a train crash that killed 11 people was distracted by playing a mobile phone game at the time, prosecutors charged Tuesday, as a court ordered his arrest. Two commuter trains crashed head-on at high speed near the southern spa town of Bad Aibling on February 9 in one of Germany's deadliest accidents in years, that also left dozens injured. Prosecutors, who had previously blamed the signalling worker's "human error", said Tuesday they had now remanded the 39-year-old in custody on involuntary manslaughter and other charges.



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