The man suspected of fatally attacking a train conductor on a German regional train is believed to be a resident of Luxembourg, German prosecutors said on Wednesday.

According to a statement from the Saarbrücken public prosecutor’s office, the suspect is a 26-year-old Greek national who told investigators that he lives in Luxembourg. Prosecutors said there are no known previous convictions or police records concerning the suspect in Germany.

The conductor, aged 36, died on Wednesday morning after being attacked during a ticket inspection on a regional express train near Landstuhl in Rhineland-Palatinate on Monday evening.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the conductor died from a brain haemorrhage caused by severe blunt force trauma to the head, the prosecutor’s office said. The suspect allegedly attacked the conductor with several forceful punches to the head. “No knife or other dangerous objects were used,” prosecutors said in a statement.

Video footage from inside the train is still being reviewed as part of the investigation, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The injured conductor was taken to Homburg University Hospital in Saarland following the incident, where he later died from his injuries.

(This article was originally published by the Luxemburger Wort. Machine translated using AI, edited by Kabir Agarwal.)