Laser image: Daniel Kolkowski
It was around 22:45 on Wednesday evening that the ambulance, police and rescue services were called to Södra station in central Örebro. This after an alarm was received regarding an accident.
According to information, three people were hit by a freight train, all three of them were pedestrians and were seriously injured, the police write on their website. In addition, the locomotive has been seized for investigative purposes.
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During the night, the police carried out a major operation at the scene and witnesses were interviewed. The accident must have occurred at the railway crossing, according to information to The evening paper the train driver must not be suspected of any crime.
Those hit are said to have died
The police write on their website at 09:10 on Thursday that all three affected people died at the scene. One of them is a man aged 25 and a woman aged 20. Both their relatives have been notified of the incident.
The third person is still unknown, but the police are working intensively to identify the person. According to new information received, the police’s theory is that the three must have left a parked passenger train and then been hit by the freight train.
Laser images: Daniel Kolkowski
