Police said earlier in the evening that several people may have been hit by a train. According to the initial elements of the investigation, there would not have been any more victims or other children. The police reported this in the night from Thursday to Friday. Drones with thermal cameras were deployed.
The accident took place near a former freight station in the industrial northern Ruhr area. It is not clear how the accident could have happened. “It is a drama when something like this happens to children. It’s terrible,” said Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Herbert Reul, who went to the scene of the accident. According to the police, the two victims are from Recklinghausen.
