Man dies after train accident

The most important thing in brief

• A 21-year-old died in a train accident in Lützelflüh-Goldbach BE.
• The accident occurred around six in the morning.
• An emergency doctor could only determine that the young man was dead.

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A young man was hit by a train in Lützelflüh-Goldbach BE on Sunday morning and fatally injured. The police have started an investigation to clarify the background and the exact course of the accident.

As the Bern cantonal police announced on Sunday, the train accident was reported to the police around 6 a.m. The emergency services found a lifeless person on site. An emergency doctor could only determine that the man was dead.

Reasons for the accident are still unknown

The deceased was a 21-year-old Swiss man from the canton of Bern. The man was walking in the area of ​​the railway tracks when he was hit by a train for reasons that remain to be clarified. Despite immediately applying the emergency brakes, the train driver was unable to prevent the collision.

Rail traffic between Langnau and Burgdorf was interrupted for several hours after the accident. The care team from the canton of Bern was also deployed to look after the affected people.