Pictures from Reuters and AFP photographers at the scene showed the locomotive partly submerged in a canal alongside the tracks with other parts lying broken and detached in a field beside the track.
In this incident a high-speed TGV train coach and engine carriage falls in a canal in Eckwersheim near Strasbourg, northeastern France, after derailing during tests conducted by technicians, Frenh railway operator SNCF Anounced.
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.