#railway-sabotage

#railway-sabotage

A Deutsche Bahn (DB) spokeswoman told the dpa news agency that the fire appeared to have been fueled by an accelerant. Initial findings indicated cable sheathing had been set on fire near railway switches the mechanisms that let a train move from one track to another. Police described it as a "switch fire" that was large enough to have been noticed by a nearby resident who informed authorities shortly before midnight.

In the first incident, a bridge collapsed onto a passenger train, causing casualties, and shortly after, another bridge in Kursk derailed a freight train due to an explosion.