At the same time, two people were injured when an unknown object exploded at a railway station in the south of the country.
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These are the latest incidents adding to the recent series of attacks against critical infrastructure. They occurred a day after sabotage involving explosives near a power plant southeast of Berlin.
During a nighttime incident in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, police were called when some lines went down due to a short circuit at a substation, although no power supply disruptions were recorded.
“We do not assume this is a technical failure, rather a deliberate act,” said a local police spokesperson.
The grid operator Amprion, which manages the substation, added that external interference is very likely.
Energy company RWE stated that five power generation units at two of its coal-fired power plants in the region were shut down due to the substation disruption.
It is expected that three units will resume operation later on Wednesday, and the other two should be restarted over the weekend.
This disruption occurred a day after improvised explosives resembling large fireworks were used in sabotage against a substation in eastern Germany, about 100 kilometers southeast of Berlin.
Although several power lines were damaged, a large-scale power outage was avoided.
Responsibility for several sabotage acts in and around Berlin has been claimed by far-left militants. The country is also on heightened alert for possible Russia-related conspiracies, as Germany firmly supports Ukraine in the war with Moscow.
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Two people injured in explosion at German railway station
On Wednesday morning in the southern German city of Augsburg, police temporarily closed the transport hub near the railway station due to an explosion and a suspicious object found nearby.
Later in the morning, police reported that the suspicious object was deemed harmless, the station was reopened at 10 a.m. (local time, 11 a.m. Lithuanian time), and trains resumed service.
“We can declare the danger lifted – the object found in front of the main station was harmless, we have reopened the station,” police spokesperson Timo Kufner told the Associated Press.
“Trains are also running again,” he added.
According to officials, at about 3:15 a.m. (local time, 4:15 a.m. Lithuanian time), an unidentified object exploded at a crossing near the station, lightly injuring two people. According to the German news agency dpa, the injured are a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy, both Ukrainian citizens.
According to T. Kufner, later a second suspicious object was found right at the main railway station, which did not explode. For this reason, the station was closed at 8:30 a.m. (local time, 9:30 a.m. Lithuanian time).
Bavarian state criminal police bomb experts began work at the scene.
“It is still too early to talk about a possible motive for the nighttime explosion, but we are conducting an investigation,” said T. Kufner.
According to police, traffic and public transport around the station were disrupted in the early morning hours but later returned to normal.
Augsburg is a city in Bavaria with 308,000 inhabitants, about 78 kilometers northwest of Munich.
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