BERLIN: A teenager suffered a fatal electric shock in a Berlin underground station after trying to retrieve his e-cigarette from the train track, reported German Press Agency (dpa).
City police said on Saturday that the 17-year-old had been part of a group celebrating at Deutsche Oper station, and had tried to retrieve his vape, which had fallen under a stationary train.
In doing so, he touched the rail, suffered an electric shock, and died at the scene.
A police spokesman said that trains are sometimes temporarily parked in underground stations.
However, the rails would have remained live even in the absence of a train, and contact with the rail could result in an electric shock.
– BERNAMA-dpa
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