US Edition18-Year-Old Woman Killed After Being Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Hamburg
An 18-year-old Iranian woman was killed after being forcibly pulled onto subway tracks by a 25-year-old South Sudanese man who also died; motive remains unclear.
- On Thursday night at around 10.07pm, an 18-year-old woman, reported as Iranian, was pulled onto tracks and killed by a stranger at Wandsbek Markt subway station, Hamburg.
- Investigators say there is no indication the 25-year-old man and the teenager were known to each other, and the case was transferred to the LKA 41 homicide squad as a suspected homicide.
- Investigators are reviewing footage and coordinating with prosecutors, collecting CCTV footage and eyewitnesses as evidence, while local police work closely with the public prosecutor's office.
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The man who dragged a woman into a subway train in Hamburg on Thursday evening was a 25-year-old man from South Sudan. Police believe he chose his victim, an 18-year-old German woman, at random. The two did not know each other. According to police, security camera footage and witness statements show that the man was waiting on the platform when a subway train approached. At that point, he allegedly approached the young woman, grabbed her, and th…
A 25-year-old man from South Sudan dragged an 18-year-old Iranian girl into the tracks in front of an oncoming train at a Hamburg subway station. Both died at the scene.
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ndr.deOn Thursday evening, a 25-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman in Hamburg fell in front of an underground station, both of which were immediately dead.
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