Terrible incident on Saturday night at the Innsbruck freight station: a 30-year-old Tyrolean climbed onto a freight wagon intoxicated and suffered a life-threatening electric shock. His girlfriend of the same age then wanted to pull him away and also got caught in the circuit.
The fatal incident happened just after 11 p.m. According to the woman, after a visit to the bar, the couple was walking with a lot of alcohol consumption at the main freight station in Innsbruck when the 30-year-old had the life-threatening idea of climbing onto a tank wagon was electrocuted,” police said. In shock, his companion climbed in. “When the woman tried to pull the man away, she too received an electric shock. As a result, both of them fell from the wagon onto the track bed,” the investigators continued. After the emergency medical first aid, the man with life-threatening burns all over his body and the woman with serious injuries were taken to the Innsbruck University Hospital. Further investigations into the course of the accident are still being carried out.
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