Overview

• A passerby spotted the lifeless child from a footbridge near Brackstraße in Wilhelmsburg and called emergency services.
• The boy had been reported missing by his parents around the same time, and the description matched the child found on the tracks.
• Resuscitation attempts at the scene were unsuccessful and the child could not be saved.
• Investigators from the Hamburg police, Kriminalpolizei and federal police are examining the sequence of events and say a collision with an S‑Bahn is suspected.
• Relatives received on-site psychological support from crisis-intervention teams, including the German Red Cross, and officers deployed a person-search dog during inquiries.