Child hit by train at train station in NRW and seriously injured
Created: 11/23/2022, 4:57 p.m
After the tragic accident, a rescue helicopter landed at Moers station.
© Alexander Forstreuter/dpa
A child was hit by a freight train at the train station in Moers (NRW) on Wednesday.
The child was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Moers – In a tragic accident at the train station in Moers (Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia), a child was hit by a train on Wednesday afternoon.
A rescue helicopter landed at the station and took the seriously injured child to a hospital, as a spokesman for the federal police in Kleve told the
dpa
.
Moers train station: child hit by incoming freight train
The child is said to have stood on platform 1 of the Moers train station.
An incoming freight train caught the child and tore it into the track bed, reports
WDR
.
According to initial findings, the accident victim suffered, among other things, head injuries.
The police have not yet given any information about the age and gender of the child, reports 24RHEIN.
Train traffic in Moers was stopped after the accident and the station was closed.
The route closure in Moers has now been lifted, reports zuginfo.nrw.
Further information follows.
(bs/dpa)
