Siegburg: Large-scale operation on the prepare station – 20-year-old barricades himself within the ICE rest room with a knife, 12 injured | EUROtoday

In the midst of the Easter journey wave, a person on an ICE prepare in North Rhine-Westphalia threatened an assault and set off firecrackers, based on police stories. Twelve passengers have been barely injured. According to witness statements, a 20-year-old threw pyrotechnic objects crammed with plastic balls on the prepare on the way in which to Frankfurt on Thursday night, as a spokesman for the Siegburg police instructed the German Press Agency. The police arrived with closely armed officers and the ICE 19 was evacuated. The background to the incident remains to be unclear.

According to the spokesman, the injured passengers suffered, amongst different issues, blast trauma. After an preliminary evaluation of the state of affairs, a spokeswoman for the Federal Police additionally spoke of “light, superficial skin injuries” amongst these affected. Most of the passengers on the prepare escaped with horror shortly earlier than Easter.

The federal police spokeswoman mentioned the person had threatened an assault and had a knife in his backpack. She didn’t give any particulars. The man’s motives are nonetheless being investigated. Several media retailers had beforehand reported on the incident.

“At 8:55 p.m., supposed shots were reported on the ICE 19 train at Siegburg station,” mentioned a railway spokeswoman. According to preliminary investigations by the police, it turned out that the banging noises have been fireworks going off. The federal police spoke of so-called airsoft firecrackers. What precisely it was remained unclear a couple of hours after the incident.

According to the spokesman for the Siegburg police, the suspect first set off the firecrackers after which retreated to a prepare rest room. A passenger then locked him there till the prepare arrived on the station. The 20-year-old was pulled on the market by the federal police and is now within the custody of the Siegburg police, says the spokesman. The “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” writes a few masked particular person.

A complete of round 150 passengers have been on board who needed to depart the prepare and have been sorted by the hearth division. According to the knowledge, lots of them are vacationers and have been standing on the platform with suitcases. As a precaution, the prepare can be utterly examined and can stay on the platform for so long as potential, mentioned the spokesman.

According to federal police, solely the affected observe was closed. The incident on the night time of Good Friday was not with out penalties for different prepare passengers between Cologne and Frankfurt. “The long-distance trains on the route return to Frankfurt and continue their journey to their destination via the Rhine Valley,” says a railway spokeswoman.

This signifies that there can be delays of two to 3 hours. According to Deutsche Bahn, different long-distance trains can be rerouted, which may end in delays of as much as 90 minutes.

The prepare route between Hennef (Sieg) and Troisdorf was briefly closed as a result of police operation, as could be seen from the zuginfo.nrw portal. Regional specific trains and Cologne S-Bahn strains have been affected. Shortly after midnight it was introduced that the lockdown had been lifted.