The Police in the southern German city of Munich on Tuesday, said a woman, 20, has suffered an electric shock and was seriously injured while posing for a photograph on a parked rail car.

According to police source, the woman was thrown to the floor by the shock.

She had illegally entered the grounds of the marshalling yard at Munich South Station on Monday evening and had climbed onto the rail coach.

As she straightened up, she came so close to the overhead cable that electricity was discharged.

Her 22-year-old male companion contacted the emergency services.

It was learnt that the woman was taken to the hospital with a second and third degree of burns, while the man suffered from shock.