Teenage girl dies in collision with train

A teenager was killed on Sunday in a collision with a train in Arnèke (North) and an investigation was opened to clarify the circumstances of the tragedy, we learned from the prosecution and the firefighters.

A “young underage girl” died in a collision with a train in Arnèke, according to the Dunkirk prosecutor’s office, which did not specify at this stage the exact location of the tragedy. An investigation was opened, entrusted to the gendarmerie. The firefighters, called shortly after 2 p.m. for “a person hit by a train” at Arnèke station, found the death of a teenager “about 14 years old” and cared for her mother, in a state of shock, reported the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of the North.

Three witnesses in shock

According to communication from the SNCF, the teenager was inside the Arnèke station and was crossing a track on “a planked passage” provided for this purpose, allowing the station to be connected to a platform, when she was hit by the TGV Dunkerque-Paris. At this crossing point, “light signals indicate the possibility of crossing or not” and checks after the accident showed that “the signals were working normally”, indicated the SNCF.

Three witnesses to the tragedy were on the spot, also shocked, but their condition did not require transport by the firefighters, continued Sdis. Around 3:30 p.m., around 110 passengers were still “detained in the train” involved, a TGV, according to the same source. “The circulation of trains is currently interrupted on the Dunkirk-Hazebrouck axis due to a personal accident which occurred in the Arnèke sector”, indicated on Twitter the account TER Hauts-de-France, estimating the time of recovery. traffic at 5:30 p.m.

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