BERLIN (Reuters) – Several young people were struck by a train on Thursday on a railway line in the western German town of Recklinghausen, police said, and local media outlets reported they were dragged along by a freight train for several hundred meters (yards).
Police declined to give further details but media reports said some 35 firemen and rescue workers had been deployed to the accident site, near a former freight yard, and that rescue teams were searching the track bed and using drones to look for victims.
Recklinghausen police declined to say how many people were injured or if any had died.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Sandra Maler)
