Woman dies in accident at Gänsemarkt subway station

Fatal accident

Woman trapped between train and platform

11/12/2025 – 01:31Reading time: 1 minute.

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Entrance to Gänsemarkt subway station (symbolic image): Police are still busy evaluating video surveillance. (Source: Christian Charisius/dpa)

A woman died at the Gänsemarkt subway station in Hamburg. Her husband had to witness the disaster. What the police say now about how the accident happened.

A woman died in an accident at the Gänsemarkt subway station in central Hamburg on Tuesday evening. For reasons that remain unclear, he was trapped between the edge of the platform and the train.

The woman suffered such serious injuries that she died at the scene of the crash, a police spokesman said. The woman’s husband was present at the accident. According to a police spokesman, he had to be treated by a crisis intervention team, as did an acquaintance accompanying the elderly couple.

Based on witness statements, there was no outside influence in the accident, said a police spokesman. However, evaluation of the video recording is still ongoing.