Berlin, Dec 6, (dpa/GNA) – Four children aged between 11 and 13, beat up a 13-year-old boy at a bus station in southern Germany, kicking and hitting him with emergency hammers taken from a bus, police in Lindau on Lake Constance reported on Saturday.
The incident, which saw the victim pushed to the ground, occurred late on Friday.
Local and federal police conducted a search for the culprits, finding the four behind a building housing a police station. They were detained and handed over to youth care officials.
The 13-year-old victim was admitted to hospital with injuries described as not serious. The assault is reported to have followed an argument.
GNA