Police and firefighters in Bavaria were called out to a large-scale operation after a door on an ICE opened while the train was in motion. Federal police in Munich said on Wednesday that the high-speed train had been running from Munich to Dortmund on Tuesday evening when a door opened, for reasons that remain unexplained, shortly before the Schönrain Tunnel beyond Wiesenfeld.
At the time, the train was carrying 238 passengers and was moving at a speed of roughly 200 kilometres per hour. It came to a standstill following an emergency brake application. Emergency crews then searched the section of track, as the possibility that someone had been injured could not be ruled out.
Among the assets brought in were a drone, a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging camera and a dog unit. In the end, no one was found. The train was moved to Lohr station. How the incident came about was initially unclear.
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