A German minister was killed on the railway tracks after the outbreak of Corona

German media reported that the police found the body of Scheffer, 54, on the tracks of an express train in Wiesbaden, the capital of the state of Hesse.

After extensive investigations, through testimonies and technical and forensic data, the Hesse state police confirmed that it was the body of Thomas Schaeffer, and suggested that the death came through the man's suicide.

According to what was reported by Deutsche Welle, the German website, the sudden death of Minister Scheffer, who belongs to Chancellor Angela Merkel's "Christian Democratic" party, caused a shock in political and popular circles in Germany, especially as the country is going through the crisis of the spread of the virus. Corona.

While the incident comes in the midst of an atmosphere of crisis in Germany under the weight of the high number of people infected with the Corona virus, Volker Jung, head of the Evangelical Church in Hesse-Nassau, called for “patience and social solidarity and not to lose hope” in the face of the epidemic and the spread of news of death.

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According to local reports, Schaefer has been very active in his work during the recent period in the face of the Corona crisis. Thomas Schaeffer has two children and a wife, and has spent more than two decades of his life contributing to the country's public financial policy.

And data from the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases showed, on Sunday, that the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany rose to 52547, and that 389 people had died of the disease.

The data indicated that cases of infection increased by 3965 cases compared to the previous day, while the number of deaths jumped by 64 cases.