Blue light in Rhein-Main: two injured after a rear-end collision - suspected killing in central Hesse

Kunzell.

  After a fire on company premises with employee apartments in Künzell, East Hesse, a second body was found. This was discovered on Tuesday in the building affected by the fire, said a spokeswoman for the Fulda public prosecutor's office. After the fire on Pentecost Sunday, one person was found dead and another person was missing. According to the first findings, it is said to be two employees of a freight forwarding company who were housed in residential accommodation. Forensic examinations should now provide certainty about the identity of the dead, said the justice spokeswoman. According to the police, the fire had broken out in the residential complex for a previously unknown cause and had affected the entire building with an adjacent warehouse. Fire fighters were able to preventthat the flames spread to other company buildings. The body was recovered early Sunday afternoon. The second person suspected in the building could not initially be found "due to the difficult rescue situation".

Bad Homburg.

A 93-year-old woman was seriously injured in an accident on the A5 near Bad Homburg (Hochtaunuskreis). According to the police, she had to be rescued from a car by the fire department on Tuesday night. She was taken to a clinic. The senior citizen was traveling as a passenger with a 63-year-old driver on the A5 in a southerly direction, it was said. At the level of the Bad Homburg Cross, the car had moved from the middle to the right lane for unknown reasons and collided with a truck. "After the collision, the 63-year-old woman lost control of her vehicle and threw the car over the entire lane," said the police. The driver was slightly injured when the car came to a halt on the central guardrail.The 44-year-old truck driver survived the crash unharmed. Debris would have damaged two other cars. According to the police, the A5 was closed to the south for several hours. The investigations into the cause of the accident are therefore ongoing.

Wetzlar.

By locking the car doors, young people in Wetzlar thwarted plans for an armed robbery. Two 18-year-old men and two 16 and 17-year-old girls met in a school parking lot, the police said on Tuesday. While one of the boys was standing in the open, the other three were sitting in a car when suddenly two masked men armed with knives ran up to them. The 18-year-old in the open fled on foot, the other three unceremoniously locked the car from the inside and thus thwarted the attack. The two robbers, who were obviously after the valuables, left without prey on Sunday.

Weinbach.

A young man was found dead in an apartment in Central Hesse. Police in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday that it was being investigated on suspicion of a homicide. The 19-year-old's body was injured by a sharp object. The autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. A family member found the deceased early Monday evening in his apartment in Weinbach-Elkerhausen. According to the initial investigation, the 19-year-old probably died between Sunday and Monday.

Kassel.

A burst tire on the tractor unit of a semitrailer truck caused an accident between Warburg and Breuna in the direction of Kassel on Tuesday. As the police announced, the vehicle had left the lane at around 7 a.m. due to the breakdown and crashed into the central barrier. The semitrailer tipped to the right and lost a large part of its loaded beverage crates with empty beer bottles. The vehicle blocked both lanes. The 47-year-old driver was uninjured. The property damage is estimated at a total of around 70,000 euros. The A44 in the direction of Kassel was completely closed for hours for the rescue and cleaning work. A traffic jam several kilometers long formed.

Ober-Mörlen.

Unknown perpetrators blew up an ATM in Ober-Mörlen in the Wetterau region and caused property damage in the six-figure range. The police estimated this at several hundred thousand euros, as the officials announced. According to a spokesman, the machine was located on the ground floor of a building. It is unclear how much money the perpetrators have stolen. According to the initial findings, four to five men took action on Tuesday night. These are said to have been masked and dressed completely in black and raced away in a dark car. The police are investigating and looking for more witnesses.

Poppenhausen.

A young person who went missing while hiking on the Wasserkuppe was found on Tuesday night near Nuremberg. He was found on a train by the federal police, said a police spokesman in Fulda. The background to his disappearance is not yet known. The seventeen-year-old was on Saturday with a companion at the Radom - a former radar station on the Wasserkuppe. The police suspect that the young person living in the Kitzingen area then left for reasons that were initially unknown. A great deal of effort had been made to find him.