BERLIN (AP) – One boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany, police said Friday.
The boys, ages 9 and 10, were hit by the train in Recklinghausen, in the Ruhr industrial region, on Thursday evening.
The elder boy died while the younger was taken to a hospital. Police said Friday that his life was no longer in acute danger.
They said there were no indications that other children were hit, though they were looking into whether others had been on the tracks before the accident.
03 February 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Recklinghausen: A police forensic technician carries a drone past a freight train that hit two children. Two boys were hit by a freight train in a fatal accident in Recklinghausen. The ten-year-old was killed, the nine-year-old seriously injured. There were no indications of other injured, said the police spokesman. Photo: David Young/dpa (Photo by David Young/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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