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Police investigate after boy cycling to school in Hamburg
Germany was hit by a turning rubbish truck
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A seven-year-old school boy died after being run over by a bin lorry in front of his father.
The child was cycling to school when he was hit at around 7.55am in the Volksdorf district of Hamburg, police said.
A 25-year-old driver was driving the rubbish truck as the boy rode his bicycle parallel to the pavement, Bild reports
The boy then fell for an "unexplained reason" and was caught and killed by the turning truck as he fell
Emergency services were called out to the scene but it was too late
Hamburg Police are now calling for witnesses to come forward
a 7-year-old cyclist was hit by a truck and fatally injured,” police said in a statement
a 25-year-old driver (Bulgarian nationality) of a waste disposal vehicle drove the Streekweg in the direction of Wietreie and wanted to turn right at the level of Horstlooge street
“The 7-year-old boy rode his bicycle parallel on the sidewalk and fell for an unexplained reason at the level of the Horstlooge
was caught by the turning truck and fatally injured
"An immediately alerted traffic accident team of the Innenstadt/West Traffic Directorate (VD 23) took over the accident recording on site. The emergency services also used a 3D scanner and a drone and called in an expert to support them.”
Further investigations, including the technical facilities of the truck, are being conducted, the police said.
Witnesses are asked to contact the Hamburg police hotline or a police station at 040 4286-56789.
The number of fatalities from traffic accidents in Germany has declined by 25 per cent over the last decade, a smaller decrease than the EU’s average of 36 per cent, according to the European Commission.
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One of the top people on the most-wanted list of Nazis has been declared unfit for trial by prosecutors in Germany
They said former SS lieutenant Gerhard Sommer
He is one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country's worst civilian wartime massacres
the murder of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944
retreating in northern Italy ahead of Allied troops
surrounded the village early on 12 August and in the space of a few hours murdered men
Sommer was serving at the time in an SS Panzer division
He now lives in a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf and tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals
Hamburg lawyer Gabriele Heinecke, who has campaigned on behalf of the victims' families to put him on trial, was asked by Berlin website Tageszeitung if she thought dementia could be faked
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attempts have been made to put Sommer on trial
German prosecutors were confident that if he had been deemed fit
Sommer would "with high probability have been charged with 342 cases of murder
The decision to drop the trial comes as Oskar Groening
described as "The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" is being tried in Germany on at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder
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