'Sabotage' disrupts train travel in northern Germany
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- 02 Nov 2022
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An act of "sabotage" disrupted train travel across northern Germany Saturday morning.
All high-speed, regional and freight trains in the north of the country were interrupted for nearly three hours Saturday morning due to radio link cables being cut.
Deutsche Bahn claimed that the paralysis was caused by a deliberate act, which halted trains in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen.
Long-distance trains between Berlin and Cologne and Berlin and Amsterdam were also affected, while trains from Denmark weren't crossing the border into Germany.
Germany's Minister of Transport Volker Wissing said it was "clear that this is a targeted and deliberate action", adding that the motive was not "yet known".
In a statement to the press, he said "cables essential to the operation were voluntarily and intentionally severed." Read More...
