Overview
- Officials confirmed late Sunday that an ICE train hit workers on a track in Essen-Katernberg, leaving one worker dead and another severely injured.
- Rescuers carried out a roughly two-hour operation that used a ladder rescue to lift the injured worker to safety and included crisis chaplains and a Bundespolizei helicopter.
- Local fire and medical crews declared one person dead at the scene and transported the injured worker to hospital.
- Deutsche Bahn has closed the affected track and is rerouting long-distance trains between Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg with reported delays of about 20 minutes.
- Authorities have opened investigations into how the accident occurred and have not released causal details while some media report six employees were on the site when two were struck.