A truck driver died in a rear-end collision on Autobahn 2 near Burg in Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt.

A total of three people died in the accident, according to a police spokeswoman after the end of the rescue work.

The driver drove into a traffic jam on Tuesday afternoon, a police spokeswoman said in the evening.

The truck and a car with a caravan burned out completely at the accident site.

It is assumed that two occupants were fatally injured in the car with a trailer, the spokeswoman said.

The suspicion grows stronger.

The rescue is still ongoing.

Another truck driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

In the rear-end collision at noon, the truck had pushed a car with a caravan onto a truck driving in front of it.

The collision caused the truck to catch fire, police said.

The fire therefore spread quickly.

A thick cloud of smoke formed at the scene of the accident.

The fire brigade began the rescue work in the early afternoon.

Again and again serious accidents on the important east-west connection A 2

However, these were particularly difficult because, according to the police, the car was a hybrid vehicle.

It had to be flooded because of the battery in a special container, said the spokeswoman.

During the extinguishing work, the A 2 was completely closed in both directions.

According to the information, traffic in the direction of Hanover was diverted at the Burg-Zentrum junction, in the direction of Berlin at the Lostau junction.

The accident happened about 30 kilometers from the Brandenburg border.

The A2 is an important east-west connection.

Again and again there are serious accidents involving trucks.

On Tuesday morning near Marienborn (Börde district) on Saxony-Anhalt's border with Lower Saxony, a truck drove unbraked into a traffic jam and pushed three other trucks into each other.

Three truck drivers were seriously injured, police said.

Several liters of operating materials were distributed on the road and in the embankment.

The autobahn was still closed there in the evening in the direction of Hanover.