Rescuers discovered the three men under different wagons
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According to the spokesman, the corresponding part of the train was uncoupled and towed to a workshop. The passengers had switched to the other part of the ICE, which continued its journey with a delay of about an hour. As a result of the mission, 17 other trains were also delayed.
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Accident at Ehrenfeld train station in Cologne: three young men are run over by a freight train. Two of them die. Why they were on the tracks is unclear.
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Three young men were run over by a freight train at Cologne’s Ehrenfeld train station. Two of them, aged 20 and 21, died in the accident early Saturday morning. That is what the police said. Another 21-year-old was in mortal danger.
According to initial investigations, the three men were on the tracks when the train hit them. It is not yet clear why they were there. The Cologne Criminal Police has started investigations into the alleged course of the accident.
According to the fire brigade, the train driver noticed a knock on the locomotive shortly before the Ehrenfeld train station. He initiated an emergency stop. Rescuers discovered the three men under different wagons. An emergency doctor could only determine that the 20-year-old was dead. The two 21-year-olds were taken to hospitals. One of them died from his injuries that morning.
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Numerous people were injured in a major fire on the Siegburg ICE line. The important rail link had to be closed. Long-distance traffic should at least be resumed early in the morning.
After a major fire on the Siegburg ICE line, long-distance traffic was resumed early Wednesday morning. When the important railway line between Cologne and Frankfurt can be opened again for regional traffic, it was still unclear during the night, as a railway spokeswoman said.
In the fire on Tuesday, 32 people were injured, as a spokesman for the Rhein-Sieg district control center said early Wednesday morning. Accordingly, one person was seriously injured by the flames. The rest of the affected suffered slight smoke poisoning or suffered from circulatory problems. The information from the authorities about the number of injured had still differed in the evening. The control center had initially spoken of 28 injured.
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"The first emergency services had a wall of fire in front of them"said a fire department spokesman.to kill a mockingbird paper Due to the dryness and the heat of the past few weeks, the flames could have spread very quickly on the embankment. Eight buildings were severely damaged in some cases and the railway line had to be closed. According to the control center, 15 residents could no longer enter their homes. 13 of them were accommodated in alternative quarters in the city, and two were accommodated with family members.
Around 550 emergency services on site
After several hours, the approximately 550 emergency services had the fire under control. A water cannon from the federal police and a helicopter were also requested. The fire brigade’s large-scale operation ended early in the morning. According to the information, only one vehicle was still on site for the fire protection watch.
Soon after the fire broke out, the city of Siegburg announced that a passing train had probably made sparks and so ignited the flames. The city later relativized this statement and emphasized that other causes of the fire were also possible. The railway warned against jumping to conclusions. One could first "no conclusive statement" make it the cause of the embankment fire, emphasized a company spokesman. There was initially no information about the amount of the financial damage.
After the embankment fire: Firefighters extinguish a fire on a railway line in Siegburg. (Source: Oliver Berg / dpa)
Police and fire brigade on duty: Several houses have caught fire directly on the important Cologne – Frankfurt railway line. (Source: Oliver Berg / dpa)
ICEs between Cologne and Frankfurt were initially diverted along the Rhine and would arrive up to 90 minutes late. In addition to the long-distance trains, numerous regional trains and S-Bahn trains were affected. Trains of the RE9 from the direction of Siegen only ran to Siegburg. Trains from Cologne only ran to Troisdorf. Replacement buses were used on the section in between. The railway asked all travelers to find out whether their train was running before they set off.
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A suspicious container on board an ICE has alerted the fire brigade in Aschaffenburg. The train had to be partially cleared. Now specialists examine the item.
A suspicious find in an ICE triggered a large-scale operation by the police and fire brigade on Sunday – the rear half of the train was completely cleared in the Aschaffenburg station. As the investigators announced, the suspicious item was a petri dish. For example, chemists or medical professionals usually grow cell cultures in such flat containers.
A traveler had discovered the container with an indefinable substance late on Sunday afternoon in the moving train. According to the Federal Police, the jar was in a compartment in the front seat between newspapers. The traveler then alerted the fire brigade.
The train that was traveling from Würzburg to Frankfurt / Main then stopped at Aschaffenburg’s main train station and the rear of the train was evacuated. Under "the highest possible security precautions" the fire brigade removed the petri dish from the relevant wagon.
Substance probably not dangerous
The Federal Police are currently not assuming a dangerous incident. The Petri dish was closed, and none of the travelers complained about health problems, a spokesman for the federal police told t-online.de. A measurement of the air inside the train did not reveal any abnormalities either.
Nevertheless, the Federal Police started investigations into the origin of the Petri dish. The spokesman said the personal details of all travelers in the affected part of the train were noted. "We are looking for the owner of the petri dish, but currently see no crime."
The ICE was able to continue its journey on Sunday after around two hours – but without the cordoned off part of the train. This is currently on a siding in Aschaffenburg. The Petri dish with the unknown substance had been handed over to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety and is currently being examined, the spokesman continued. "Tonight at the earliest" can be expected with a first result. A final finding will be "in up to three days" exist.
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The Rose Monday parade in Marne should also be celebrated in stormy weather. The gusts of winds of strength 8 to 9 feared by meteorologists are no reason to cancel, said the President of the Marner Carnival Society (MKG), Heiko Claussen, the German press agency. "8 to 9 Beaufort there is only a little wind here in Schleswig-Holstein, but not a storm. If at least wind force twelve is not reached on the Beaufort scale, nothing happens."
This year, too, fools and jesters can hope to celebrate a street carnival in Schleswig-Holstein’s carnival stronghold of Marne in the Dithmarschen district. The Marner Rose Monday parade is traditionally rather apolitical, explained Claußen. The kilometer-long, foolish Lindwurm with around 60 self-made motive wagons and foolishly costumed groups of feet shows this year, among other things, a circus, a pirate and a Viking ship as well as the Feuerstein family.
The Marner move is the only major one in northern Germany that takes place on Rose Monday. In Marne, the northern lights, who are more of a carnival grouch, have been celebrating a parade for half a century. With the exception of a break between 1969 and 1978, floats have been rolling through the town since February 1956. The foolish day "aft Diek" is considered the highlight of the street carnival in Schleswig-Holstein.
At the weekend she celebrated her 48th birthday in the box of Schalke President Clemens Tönnies, from Friday Claudia Pechstein will be on the ice for the 24th time at an all-around World Cup. The five-time Olympic champion from Berlin leads the German squad for the title fights from February 28 to March 1 in the Viking ship from Hamar. For the first time in the more than 100-year history of speed skating world championships, the title fights in the all-around and sprint all-around will be held in parallel at the same location.
Pechstein slipped into the German World Cup team at the side of Inzell, Roxanne Dufter, because the weak Michelle Uhrig did not start. "Reaching the 5000 meter final would be like a medal for me"said Pechstein. "The 500 meters are not my route at all, so my chances of qualifying for the fourth route are very slim"said the oldest participant in World Cup history.
On Saturday, Pechstein celebrated her 48th birthday at Schalke at the invitation of President Clemens Tönnies in his box together with ex-coaches Otto Rehhagel and Huub Stevens at the Bundesliga game against RB Leipzig (0: 5).
At the Sprint World Championships in Hamar, Nico Ihle (Chemnitz), Joel Dufter (Inzell) and Hendrik Dombek (Munich) as well as Katja Franzen (Inzell) will form the German team.
A huge feast was held off the coast of Scotland 1,700 years ago. Bone finds from countless animals testify to this. Did a ruler swear his warriors to fight the Romans?
In the third century the tribes of Scotland had a serious problem. Roman troops were still bustling down south. In their iron armor, the drilled soldiers marched along the great wall that their Emperor Hadrian had once built.
The foreign generals kept forging new plans to bring the previously free north under Roman rule. How could the tribes defend themselves against the impending danger? What could their leaders do to weld their own men together and forge a loyal alliance against the alien invaders?
More than 11,000 pieces of bone
On the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay, high on a stormy cliff overlooking Windwick Bay, archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands may have found an answer to these questions. At the excavation site "The Cairns" they discovered the remains of a huge feast.
What took place there over 1,700 years ago was beyond the scope of a small private party: the excavators removed more than 11,000 pieces of bones from the ground, the remains of hundreds of animals. Many were tasty farm animals such as cattle, sheep or pigs, but the guests also ate wild animals such as deer and otters.
Excavation site "The Cairns": Numerous animal bones have been found there. (Source: UHI Archeology Institute)
The remains of the sumptuous meal tell of the excess that must have prevailed at this feast. Because the bones are not completely scraped off or even broken open in order to suck the last marrow out of them. Rather, they were only half-heartedly gnawed off and then thrown in the garbage – an almost shocking waste at the time.
Partly grilled, part cooked
Some of the meat was grilled, other pieces cooked, as indicated by the many small pebbles between the bones. The stones were heated in the fire and then placed in saucepans to bring their contents to a boil. The archaeologists repeatedly found shards of drinking vessels in the leftovers.
"It seems like our feast guests ate beef knuckle, boiled pork and grilled lamb and then washed it down with beverages served in cups", excavation manager Martin Carruthers paints the scene in the blog of the University’s Archaeological Institute.
However, he concluded that the event must have had a deeper meaning not only from the size of the feast. In addition to the leftovers, the excavators also found at least 60 molds for jewelry. Some could be used to make rings, others formed the blanks for large jewelry needles, also known as "celtic brooches" are known.
Nobody cleaned up
They do not reflect the repertoire of a workshop that tried out different designs over a long period of time, but were all used at the same time – and then left behind. Nobody cleaned up particularly thoroughly, because bronze remains, small bronze droplets and melting pots were scattered around the site.
In some places the remains of the feast mix with those of the casting – so jewelry making and feasting probably took place at the same time. "The close stratigraphic connection between the fine metalwork and the festival raises the question of what actually happened here"writes Carruthers. "One possibility that I particularly like is that the celebration was a spectacular social event – in which the jewelry-making products were given or given away to specific recipients by the operator of the workshop."