Police in Hamburg, Germany, are investigating a suspected homicide after a man and a young woman were killed by an incoming subway train at the port city’s Wandsbek-Markt station, with eyewitnesses saying a “colored” man deliberately pulled the woman onto the tracks.

It was later confirmed that the killer was a 25-year-old man from Sudan.

According to Hamburg police, initial findings indicate that the individuals did not know each other and had been standing independently on the platform when, as the train approached, the man grabbed the woman and forced them both onto the tracks, dying instantly.

The incident occurred at around 10 p.m. The fire department recovered the bodies and handed the scene over to police shortly before 11 p.m., the Hamburger Abendblatt reported. The victims have not yet been identified, and police said the motive remains unclear. The regional newspaper later reported the victim was just 18 years of age.

According to eyewitnesses, the perpetrator was a Black man. The victim he threw under the subway train was a young woman. pic.twitter.com/oeRfBLC6J6

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One eyewitness, asked by Focus magazine about the ages of those involved, said, “Unfortunately, I can not judge that with the colored one. The woman was very young.” Police said witnesses received psychological support at the scene and that investigators are reviewing footage from the station’s security cameras.

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The fatal incident adds to a series of violent attacks at railway and subway stations in Germany in recent years. In August last year, a 31-year-old Iraqi man pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl into the path of a freight train traveling at 100 kilometers per hour at Friedland station while she was waiting on the platform and speaking by phone with her grandfather in Ukraine. She died instantly. Earlier this month, the man was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment, avoiding a prison sentence.

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In January 2023, a 27-year-old Syrian national was arrested after reportedly throwing a 16-year-old schoolgirl onto the tracks at Altena station in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to a police report, “Suddenly a young man ran after her, grabbed her from behind, and threw her over the edge of the platform onto platform 1 in front of the stunned fellow passengers,” adding, “Then he jumped after himself and held the young girl firmly on the tracks.” The suspect later climbed back onto the platform and boarded his train.

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More recently, in November 2025, Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani, head of the German-Arab school in Berlin and a prominent critic of radical Islam, said a man attempted to push him toward the tracks at a Neukölln subway station. “The man then hit me on the head with his hand. It was over in a few seconds,” Al-Mashhadani told Focus, saying he managed to fight back as the train approached. Berlin police said state security investigators took over the case, secured video footage, and questioned witnesses.

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In another incident in March 2023, two foreign nationals were arrested at Pforzheim’s central train station after allegedly pushing a 49-year-old man onto the tracks when he refused to give them a cigarette. Local media reported that the victim was assaulted again as he tried to climb back onto the platform. The suspects, a 33-year-old Algerian and a 31-year-old Tunisian, were charged with dangerous bodily harm.