Public safety incident

Police in Hamburg have set up a murder commission to investigate the deaths of two people at one of the city's U-Bahn (subway) stations on Thursday night.According to police, the two people had been standing separately from one another on the platform at the Wandsbek-Markt station when one of them grabbed the other and threw them both in front of an oncoming train.The two victims have not yet been identified, nor has the background or a potential motive, but the incident, which occurred around 10 p.m. local time (2100 UTC), is being treated as murder.Police said witnesses were receiving post-traumatic counselling.