Loud bang, then he fell on the platform: Man fights for his life after an electrical accident

Created: 11/23/2022, 10:04 am

By: Lukas Schierlinger

A man was critically injured in an electrical accident at Munich Central Station (symbol image).

© Sven Hoppe/dpa

A young man from Sweden suffered life-threatening injuries in an accident at Munich Central Station.

So far, the background is unclear.

Munich - There is still no more precise information about the injury condition of the 23-year-old man.

He was found early Wednesday morning (November 23) by a railway employee near the Holzkirchner wing station (part of Munich Central Station) with burn injuries.

He had previously been the victim of an electrical accident.

The rescue control center informed the federal police at around 6.45 a.m. about a seriously injured person in the Bayerstrasse area.

A video evaluation by the federal police showed that the 23-year-old was "slightly swaying" around 5.50 a.m. on platform 5 between two wagons.

Munich Central Station: 23-year-old critically injured in an electrical accident

"After he had climbed onto the roof of a parked Westbahn train for reasons not yet known, there was a power flashover on the railway overhead line, which was in slumber mode," says a press release.

The man fell onto the platform, accompanied by a loud bang.

His pant leg caught fire.

Employees at a nearby train depot noticed the flashover, but initially did not notice the injured person.

The 23-year-old got up shortly afterwards and moved independently along the platform, falling to the ground several times.

"He kept getting up until he finally walked onto the track area of ​​track 5 at around 6:10 a.m., limping badly," reports the federal police.

And further: "There he climbed - despite clearly recognizable injuries on his leg - a fence about 180 centimeters high and disappeared from the camera area."

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A little later, a railway employee met the loudly screaming, seriously injured man and set the rescue chain in motion.

The 23-year-old Swede (not resident in Bavaria) was treated by paramedics and taken to a Munich clinic with second-degree burns.

He was operated on that morning.

It is not certain whether he will survive the accident.

It is not known where the Swede came from, why he took the life-threatening path across the tracks to the platform and why he climbed onto the roof of the train.

Now the federal police are investigating.

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