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Maine-et-Loire: a young man caught and killed by a TGV in front of his friends

2023-02-18T18:06:34.438Z


The tragedy took place on the night of February 16 to 17 while the train was traveling in the Paris-Nantes direction.


A young man in his twenties was grabbed and killed by a TGV which linked Paris to Nantes, on the night of Thursday February 16 to Friday February 17, near the town of Saint-Georges-sur-Loire (Maine -et-Loire), learned

Le Figaro

from the Angers prosecutor's office, confirming information from

Ouest-France

.

The tragedy took place while the train was traveling in the Paris-Nantes direction.

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“Five young people had spent an evening without excess at the home of one of them watching a football match

,” said the public prosecutor of Angers, Éric Bouillard, to our colleagues.

"We don't have all the details yet, but they went near the track and one of them was hit by the train, which is traveling there at more than 200 km / h," added the prosecutor

. .

The victim died of polytrauma.

An investigation is underway as part of a search for the cause of death.

Very shocked, the four other young people were taken care of by the emergency services.

Source: lefigaro

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