"Major disruptions to Germany's rail network on
Saturday were caused by 'sabotage targeting communication
infrastructure," national rail operator Deutsche Bahn said.
A representative of the company told AFP that the
disturbances, which stopped train traffic for three hours in northern Germany,
were caused by "cable sabotage".
According to Christine Lambrecht, Minister of Defense of
Germany, who is visiting Lithuania, the railway line was damaged in two places.
"This is not a technical malfunction - it could be
sabotage," she told reporters in Rukla, Jonava district.
The incident is under investigation.
According to German Transport Minister Volker Wissing,
important cables "were deliberately cut" in a couple
of places.
"It was clearly a targeted and deliberate act," he
added, adding that motives of this were "still unknown."
Deutsche Bahn previously announced that no long-distance or
regional trains are running in the northwestern German states of Hamburg,
Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen.
This meant that there were also no trains between Berlin and
Cologne, between Berlin and the Dutch capital Amsterdam, and trains from
Denmark did not cross the border into German territory.
Train traffic was temporarily suspended in northern Germany
on Saturday morning.
More than two hours after Deutsche Bahn first reported the
disruptions, it announced that the problem - a "fault in the train's
digital radio system" - had been resolved, but some disruptions to traffic
were still possible."
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