Another Horror For France As Five dead and seven injured after high speed train derails off a bridge and plunges into canal (Photos)

At least five people were killed and seven injured after a high speed train came off the tracks as it crossed a bridge 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.