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Netherlands: Suspected sabotage disrupts train services
DW.com • • world
Key Points:
- Train services in the Netherlands, particularly around Zwolle, Deventer, and Amersfoort, have been severely disrupted due to suspected sabotage involving materials deliberately placed on the tracks.
- ProRail reported that these objects, identified as pipes attached to the railway lines, caused track-circuit failures and affected several level crossings, disrupting both train and road traffic.
- A train collided with one of the pipes, but no accidents or injuries were reported, and ProRail workers are actively removing the objects to restore safe conditions.
- It is unclear if the sabotage is related to Prinsjesdag, a significant political event in The Hague involving the presentation of the national budget and a royal procession.
