HMM: ‘Sabotage’ causes major train disruption in northern Germany. “German Transport Minister Volker Wissing said Saturday that ‘sabotage acts on the cable network’ were responsible for a serious outage of train traffic in large parts of northern Germany, adding that authorities were investigating and seeking the unknown perpetrators. The service of long-distance, regional and cargo trains in the northwestern states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen was interrupted for about three hours on Saturday morning after critical cables for a communication system, which enables radio contact and data transmission between trains and the railway operating centers, had been sabotaged.”