Overview
- Passengers detained a 20-year-old after he set off pyrotechnic devices on an Intercity-Express train Thursday night, according to police.
- Officers arrested the suspect at Siegburg/Bonn station after riders locked him in a restroom and the train was evacuated.
- About 12 passengers suffered mostly minor injuries, including one taken to a Bonn hospital for ear trauma.
- Police said they seized two knives and additional commercially sold smoke devices from the suspect.
- The train with roughly 180 passengers was cleared and a section of the station cordoned off, then the track reopened around 12:45 a.m. after a forensic exam as police pursued charges of dangerous bodily harm and explosives and weapons offenses.