U.S., June 25 -- According to German Interior Ministry, two Eurofighter warplanes have collided in the air and then crashed in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. German media reports that the planes have fallen in a residential area.

The two German Air Force fighter jets collided in the air over the small town of Malchow, located some 80km away from the German city of Schwerin.

"The Eurofighter [jets] collided in the air and then crashed," a military spokesman told Der Spiegel magazine. According to the Defense Ministry, one of the jets crashed in a wooded area near the village of Jabel, while the other one fell 10km away, south of the village of Nossentiner Huette.

The wreckage of the destroyed aircraft has fallen in a nearby...