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Der Junge hatte abends auf den Bahngleisen gespielt und war von einem Reisezug erfasst worden, dessen Räder ihn zerstückelt hat‐ ten.
The boy had been playing on the tracks, at night, last night, and was caught by a passenger train; his body was cut up by the wheels.
Er bemühte sich, so unauffällig wie möglich zu sein, ging lieber über Felder als über Straßen, wenn er die Wahl hatte, und fuhr nie mit Reisezügen, weil an Bahnhöfen häufig kontrolliert wurde.
He made himself inconspicuous, he walked across fields rather than take roads when he had the choice, and he never travelled by passenger train because there were often checkpoints at stations.
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