Five people are believed to have died and seven injured after a high speed train caught fire and derailed in Strasbourg. 
 
 The test train came off the tracks outside Eckwersheim, near Strasbroug, to the east of the country, and plunged into a river at around 6.15pm (local time). 
 
 Nombreux blessés pris en charge par pompiers et samu pic.twitter.com/SKiF5mZ71Y — Aurélien Poivret (@AurelienPoivret) November 14, 2015 
 
 Nouveau blessé évacué pic.twitter.com/wiPlgsiWKJ — Aurélien Poivret (@AurelienPoivret) November 14, 2015 
 
 Vue aérienne du déraillement d'une rame TGV à Eckwersheim, à l'approche de Strasbourg. Sans doute des blesssés. pic.twitter.com/JUHzQEZZPB — France 3 Alsace (@F3Alsace) November 14, 2015 
 
 Dramatic pictures on social media showed the train upended and partially submerged in the water. 
 
 There has not been any link established with the Paris attacks. 
 
 A witness, a teenage girl having a lesson at a nearby riding school, told Dernieres Nouvelles A’Alsace (DNA) she saw the train catch fire and then overturn. It is believed the train may have struck a nearby bridge before catching fire.Emergency services have been deployed to the scene. 
 
 Emergency services have been deployed and those injured airlifted to nearby hospitals. 
 
 It is believed the crash occurred during a test run of the TGV train when the vehicle gained “excessive speed” according to sources speaking to AFP. 

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President of French rail firm SNCF Guillaume Pepy: ''The railway family is in mourning'' 
 
 A high-speed TGV train has derailed near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, killing at least 10 people, officials say. 
 
 The crash happened during a test run in the town of Eckwersheim, on a new Paris-Strasbourg line. 
 
 The train was carrying 49 railway technicians when it derailed, caught fire, and plunged into a canal. Eleven people suffered serious injuries. 
 
 The derailment was due to "excessive speed", officials say. 
 
 Pictures showed the locomotive partly submerged. Wreckage was also scattered in a field beside the track. 
 
 Reports say the Paris-Strasbourg high-speed line is scheduled to open next year. 
 
 Junior transport minister Alain Vidalies and Ecology Minister Segolene Royal will visit the scene, French media reported. 

 Locomotive on new Paris-Strasbourg high-speed line left partly submerged in canal near German border after derailment 
 
 At least ten people have been killed and several more injured after a train derailed and caught fire near Strasbourg, according to reports. 
 
 Another 32 people were injured, 12 of them seriously. French environment minister Ségolène Royal said at the scene that a further five were unaccounted for. 
 
 All those aboard the train were employees of national railway operator SNCF. The accident was caused by excessive speed, although it was too early to say why the train was travelling so quickly, the prefecture said. 
 
 
 
 The train ended up near a bridge in the water of a roughly 130-ft wide canal. A police team of divers, helicopters and tens of rescue vehicles were sent to the scene in response to the crash. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The train in the water of the canal near the bridge in Eckwersheim, near Strasbourg. Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images 
 
 Reuters, citing local police and national railway company TGV, reported that the train was travelling on the new Paris-Strasbourg high-speed line on Saturday at Eckwersheim, near the German border. 
 
 
 
 Pictures from a Reuters photographer showed the locomotive partly submerged in a canal alongside the tracks with train parts lying broken and detached in a field. Medical units, including police divers, attended the scene. 
 
 The second section of the Paris-Strasbourg high-speed TGV line on which the crash happened is set to open for service in April 2016. 
 
 DNA said its reporter had been told that an initial assessment had put the death toll at five people. The paper reported that the crash was not thought to be linked to terrorism. 

 ECKWERSCHEIM, France (AP) — A high-speed train undergoing a test derailed, burst into flames, split apart and plunged into a canal in northeast France, killing at least seven people and gravely injuring at least 10 others in what officials said appeared to be an accident. 
 
 Rescue vehicles park between a canal and the railway tracks after a high-speed train derailed in Eckwersheim, near Strasbourg, eastern France, Saturday Nov.14, 2015. An official says a high-speed train... (Associated Press) 
 
 Rescue vehicles park between a canal and the railway tracks after a high-speed train derailed in Eckwersheim, near Strasbourg, eastern France, Saturday Nov.14, 2015. An official says a high-speed train... (Associated Press) 
 
 There were no immediate indications that Saturday's crash into the Marne au Rhin canal had anything to do with the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris a day earlier, said spokeswoman Viviane Chevallier of the Bas-Rhin region. 
 
 Authorities believe the TGV high-speed train, with 49 people on board, was going too fast and skipped off the tracks in the town of Eckwerscheim near the German border, she said. 
 
 In a statement, French President Francois Hollande's office said the train was not running on a line used by commercial trains. His office said 10 people were gravely injured. Chevallier had said earlier 11 people were severely injured. 
 
 Five helicopters were deployed to evacuate the injured to hospital in the nearby city of Strasbourg. Two government ministers were en route to the site.
– More than seven people are dead and at least 10 "gravely" injured after a high-speed train derailed and crashed into a canal during a test run Saturday in France, the AP reports. According to the BBC, the train was testing a new rail line between Paris and Strasbourg with 49 people on board when it caught fire and hopped the track near the German border. A teen girl getting horse-riding lesson nearby reportedly witnessed flames coming from the train before it overturned, the Independent reports. Both the Guardian and BBC say the death toll in the crash is at least 10. And according to the Guardian, more than 30 people were injured—12 of them seriously. Everyone aboard the train at the time of the crash was an employee of the railway operator. Officials blame the crash on "excessive speed," the BBC reports. Though it's unclear why the train was going so fast, according to the Guardian. The AP reports there is no indication the crash had anything to do with the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday. The Strasbourg-to-Paris line is scheduled to open next year, according to the BBC.