A 12-year-old girl in Nuremberg is in mortal danger after being electrocuted.
The police are investigating how the accident happened.
Nuremberg - In Nuremberg, a girl climbed onto a train wagon and was critically injured by an electric shock.
A scream had drawn the attention of witnesses to them.
The exact course of the accident has not yet been clarified.
Nuremberg: 12-year-old climbs on the wagon and suffers life-threatening electric shock
A witness had reported to the operations center of the Central Franconian police shortly after 7 p.m. and reported that he had heard a spark and a scream in the area of the marshalling yard. Another witness and the arriving emergency services from the Nuremberg-Süd police station were able to find a seriously injured girl in the area of the shunting tracks, as stated in a message from the Middle Franconia police station *.
According to initial findings, the 12-year-old climbed onto one of the parked railway wagons and suffered an electric shock, which caused her to suffer "life-threatening burns".
The rescue service immediately took the injured 12-year-old to a hospital for further medical care.
Meanwhile, officials from the Central Franconian Criminal Police Service took over the investigation of the course of the accident on site.
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