One dead and three injured
Railway line in Halle-Ammendorf: A train accident occurred along this line at night, in which one person died.
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How the accident happened is still unclear. Several railway employees were on the tracks on Friday night and were hit by a locomotive. The route is now closed.
Bin a train accident on the route Hall-Ammendorf died on Friday night. Three other railway employees were injured, according to the federal police. A single locomotive was involved in the accident. The locomotive was on its way from Magdeburg-Rothensee to Halle on Friday night, said a spokeswoman for the federal police in Magdeburg. At around 3:00 a.m., the vehicle caught the workers. The cause is still unclear. According to the spokeswoman, the train driver suffered a shock.
It is also unclear whether heavy snowfall caused the accident. The “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung” had previously reported. According to the newspaper, several track workers were cared for on site by a pastor.
The railway line was 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.
