Accidents: train crash in Halle: one dead, several injured

One person died in a train accident on the route near Halle-Ammendorf on Friday night.

Accidents: train crash in Halle: one dead, several injured

One person died in a train accident on the route near Halle-Ammendorf on Friday night. Three other railway employees were injured, according to the federal police. The accident reportedly happened around 3:00 a.m.

A police spokeswoman could not yet say why the railway employees were on the tracks and how exactly the incident happened. The "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung" had previously reported. According to the newspaper, several track workers were cared for on site by a pastor. In the early morning it was snowing heavily.

delays and diversions

The railway line is closed to traffic. A spokeswoman for the Federal Police was initially unable to say exactly which routes were affected by the closures. The train reported delays between Halle and Erfurt on its website in the morning. The ICE trains would be diverted in both directions and delayed by about 30 minutes, it said.

Nationwide there have always been train accidents with killed railway employees. Two technicians died in Saxony-Anhalt in December 2016. An ICE had captured the 56 and 61-year-old men who had just been on duty. In March this year, a 21-year-old construction worker died on a railway line between Bremen and Osnabrück. A local train caught him there and killed him.

In November last year, a railway employee in Central Franconia was hit by a train on the route between Treuchtlingen and Würzburg. In August 2021, a 22-year-old railway employee died at Konz-Karthaus station in Rhineland-Palatinate. He had just wanted to fix a fault, as the Federal Police said at the time.

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