Siegburg: Large-scale operation on the practice station – masked man barricades himself within the ICE bathroom with a knife | EUROtoday

A serious federal police operation is presently underway on platform 6 at Siegburg practice station. A threatening state of affairs arose in an ICE. As the “Kölnische Rundschau” experiences, a masked man has barricaded himself in a practice bathroom. According to federal police, the person threatened an assault and barely injured a number of folks.

Witnesses reported an individual peeking out of a bathroom. “A masked man threw two firecrackers with soft air balls into the hallway. These also exploded,” a police spokeswoman advised the newspaper. Several folks suffered “minor, superficial skin injuries.”

The ICE was on its approach from Cologne to Frankfurt am Main within the midst of vacationer site visitors shortly earlier than Easter and made an unscheduled cease in Siegburg. “The masked man barricaded himself in a train toilet and the officers were able to overpower him and arrest him,” mentioned the police spokeswoman.

The man had a big knife in his backpack and mentioned he wished to “stab several people.” According to the newspaper, the federal police are actually looking out the evacuated practice.

Around 300 passengers had gathered within the parking storage and had been being taken care of by assistants. The practice route between Hennef (Sieg) and Troisdorf is closed as a result of police operation, as could be seen from the zuginfo.nrw portal. The regional categorical line RE9 and the strains S12 and S19 of the Cologne S-Bahn are affected. There could possibly be delays and cancellations.