The freight train may have hit several people, but police are not releasing details at this stage.
By DPA
UA child died in a rail accident considered very serious in Germany, in Recklinghausen, in the industrial Ruhr region on Thursday evening. A freight train hit two children, killing one and injuring the other, a spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia interior ministry confirmed on Thursday evening, quoted by the DPA news agency.
According to firefighters, 35 firefighters and rescuers are on site. “We searched the way,” commented a spokesperson for the fire department.
Due to the darkness and the size of the search area, a drone was deployed, he said. The crash site is near a former freight station.
According to the media Picture, a group of people, mostly young people, were hit. Like this newspaper, local media Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) report that people were dragged several hundred meters.
