When visitors leave a concert by the Böhse Onkelz band, there are chaotic scenes in Frankfurt. A fatal accident occurs on a track.
Frankfurt/Main – After a rock concert in the Frankfurt soccer stadium, two people died on Saturday night. According to the police, they were on the tracks in the vicinity of the stadium in the south-west of the city.
The 45-year-old man and the 25-year-old woman were hit by an S-Bahn, said a spokeswoman for the federal police responsible for the railway.
According to a Frankfurt police spokesman on Sunday, the two victims come from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The 25-year-old and the 45-year-old belonged to a larger group that was on the way to the parking lot after the concert. According to information from the group, they lost sight of each other and later reported the two as missing.
According to the federal police, parts of the railway line had already been closed before the fatal accident at around 11.40 p.m. because several people had entered the tracks after the concert by the rock band Böhse Onkelz in the stadium, the “Deutsche Bank Park”. speaker.
According to the investigators, the train driver initiated an emergency brake, but was unable to prevent the accident. The entire railway line was then closed to train traffic. Federal police officers secured the scene of the accident. The lockdown was lifted around 2 a.m.
According to the Frankfurt police, there were around 300 passengers on the train who later left the train. Witnesses to the accident were cared for by the emergency pastoral care. The Frankfurt criminal police began investigations. dpa
