Germany.. A train hits two children, killing one of them

Authorities in the western German town of Recklinghausen said that a child died and another was seriously injured yesterday after being hit by a train.

Bild newspaper said earlier that a freight train dragged the two victims for several hundred metres.

"What happened here is horrific and one can only hope that the parents will have the strength to get through this ordeal," Herbert Röhl, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, told reporters at the scene.

"Why and how are all questions that no one can answer yet and will not solve anything."

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