Overview

• Police have opened a sabotage investigation into Thursday’s fire in a Düsseldorf underfloor cable tunnel and the State Criminal Police Office is authenticating a claim of responsibility by 'Kommando Angry Birds'.
• Repair teams are working around the clock to exchange about 60 meters of main signal cables plus two additional damaged lines, with services not expected to resume before 15:00.
• Long-distance ICE, IC and EC services as well as multiple Regionalexpress and S-Bahn lines between Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmund remain suspended with shuttle buses in use.
• Early warnings and prominent signage helped thousands of affected passengers avoid chaos at Duisburg main station by directing them to replacement bus services.
• Investigators discovered a homemade ignition device in the cable tunnel and are treating the blaze as an intentional act rather than an accident.