Another train attendant has been attacked in Germany about a week after an employee of railway operator Deutsche Bahn died after he was beaten up by a passenger, police said on Tuesday.
A 42-year-old female train attendant was checking tickets on a train travelling from the south-western city of Stuttgart to the town of Crailsheim on Sunday.
She found a 21-year-old passenger without a valid ticket and ordered him to pay a fine, according to federal police in Stuttgart.
Shortly afterwards, the suspect approached the train attendant again, spat on her leg and tried to hit her in the stomach with a bottle, according to eyewitnesses.
He then fled the scene. Police have launched investigations for attempted grievous bodily harm and have asked witnesses to come forward.
It comes less than a week after a fatal attack on a train attendant, the first such case in the history of Deutsche Bahn, according to the national railway operator.
The 36-year-old male employee was beat up by a passenger on a regional service during ticket inspection on Monday evening as the train was leaving Landstuhl station, to the south-west of Frankfurt.
The 26-year-old passenger did not have a ticket and was ordered to leave the train before he beat up the attendant, severely injuring him with blows to the head, according to prosecutors in nearby Zweibrücken.
The suspect, a Greek national, told authorities that he lives in Luxembourg. He did not use a weapon, according to initial findings, and did not have a criminal record in Germany.
Passengers administered first aid and alerted the police. The train attendant was resuscitated at the scene, before he was brought to hospital, where he died of his injuries on Wednesday morning.