Boy (15) dies after collision with train on scoutsweekend

A 15-year-old scout from Mechelen, was last night killed after a collision with a train. That confirms Jan Van Reusel, the spokesperson of the Scouts and Guides of Flanders, to our editors. According to the police it is a desperate act.

The scouts of the scoutsgroep Thila Coloma in Mechelen were on a weekend in The High Rielen in Kasterlee, in the neighborhood of Turnhout. In total were a hundred members of the scoutsgroep present, divided into different groups. One explorer, a 15-year-old boy, left yesterday in the early evening for a yet unknown reason, the camp with the bike. The guidance is to start searching as soon as she was aware of the disappearance and the police are informed.

The police began a search and there was also a BIN started. People from the area were notified about the disappearance of a boy on a bicycle. Eventually, it became clear that the teenager, by a train was hit by a car and was followed by a message that the search was discontinued. The boy was with serious injuries to the university hospital of Antwerp, where he later died. the

The collision is not on a handle but on the full track happened near the Lichtaartseweg in Herentals, please notify the public prosecutor of Antwerp. The exact circumstances of the collision are yet to be studied, as well as the reason why the boy on his own, with the bike left was the field where his scoutsgroep stayed. According to the police it is a desperate act.