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While playing, a five-year-old hid himself in a train in Herzogenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, which then drove off.
In Aachen, ten kilometers away, he was able to be picked up by his father from the federal police without prejudice, as the authorities announced.
Accordingly, the child had played hide-and-seek with his siblings in a supermarket while the father was shopping.
In search of a special hiding place, he ran out of the shop to the nearby train station on Thursday and boarded a train that stopped there.
"He probably hadn't thought that the train could also leave," says the federal police.
A passenger became aware of the little passenger after departure and handed him over to the train attendant.
He brought the boy to the federal police in Aachen.
In the meantime, the father had noticed his child's disappearance and turned on the state police.
A little later he was able to receive his escaped son again.
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