German Cardinal Reinhard Marx attends a memorial service in Bad Aibling, southern Germany, Sunday Feb. 14, 2016. Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a memorial service for the victims who died in a head-on train crash in southern Germany this week. (Uwe Lein/dpa via AP)
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BERLIN (AP) - Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a memorial service for the 11 victims who died in a head-on train crash in southern Germany.
Lutheran Bishop Susanne Breit-Kessler told families and friends of the dead on Sunday that "we want to carry together the unbearable," the German news agency dpa reported.
The joint Lutheran and Catholic service took place in a church in Bad Aibling, 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Munich, where the two trains slammed into each other on a single-line track on Tuesday, killing 11 and injuring dozens of others.
Rescue personnel have spent the last few days removing the trains' wreckage, and authorities are still trying to determine why the crash happened.
Investigators are considering possible technical errors, human failure or a combination of the two scenarios.
Police inspect the wreckage of a train near Bad Aiblling, southern Germany, Friday Feb. 12, 2016. Police in southern Germany said Friday a third black box has been recovered from the wreck of two trains involved in a fatal head-on crash Tuesday. More than ten people died and scores were injured, some seriously, when the commuter trains slammed into each other near Bad Aibling, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Munich. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
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Relatives of victims of a train crash and rescuers attend a memorial service in Bad Aibling, southern Germany Sunday Feb. 14, 2016. Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a memorial service for the victims who died in a head-on train crash in southern Germany this week. (Uwe Lein/dpa via AP)
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