A security guard working for German rail operator Deutsche Bahn was critically injured after falling from a moving train during a violent confrontation with a passenger, police and prosecutors said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The incident happened on Friday evening during a ticket inspection on a train travelling from Offenburg to Karlsruhe in south-western Germany.<\/p>\n
A verbal dispute apparently broke out during the inspection, prompting two Deutsche Bahn security guards to be called in, according to the statement released early on Saturday.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said the security officer reportedly fell against the train door during a physical altercation with a 36-year-old passenger who was believed to have been intoxicated, causing the door to tear from its hinges.<\/p>\n
The regional train was travelling at around 120 kilometres per hour when the fall occurred, he added. He declined to comment on whether the 26-year-old guard was in a coma or responsive, citing privacy concerns.<\/p>\n
The railway security guards had already alerted police, who were scheduled to board the train at the next stop. However, the confrontation escalated before officers could intervene.<\/p>\n
The suspect was arrested while still on board and is in police custody.<\/p>\n
The critically injured guard was eventually found beside the tracks during a large-scale search, around two kilometres from where the train later stopped.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n
Police are interviewing witnesses and investigations are under way to determine whether there is any video footage of the events. The train has been impounded and is being examined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security guard working for German rail operator Deutsche Bahn was critically injured after falling from a moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44975,11791,5,44932,44933,44931,44976],"class_list":["post-57018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-critically-injured","tag-deutsche-bahn","tag-germany","tag-moving-train","tag-regional-train","tag-security-guard","tag-violent-confrontation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}