Story By: Kathryn Quinn, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

A toddler was left needing emergency surgery after she was hit by a whisky bottle which was thrown from the window of a party train.

The two-year-old was hit on the head by the bottle on the platform of a train station in Kamen,a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, when a man threw the bottle from the party train while being held by her father.

Following the incident police stopped the train at a later station in Greven, in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The child was seriously injured in the incident and had to have emergency surgery after being left in a life-threatening condition.

Police boarded the train shortly after the incident and took the details of the 500 passengers on board, before the train was able to continue its journey. On the journey back the man who threw the bottle confessed to police.

A few days after the incident the man who threw the bottle admitted his actions to police, and admitted he was under the influence of alcohol at the time and did not realise he was in the area of a station when he threw the bottle. At the time of the incident the man had claimed the bottle had fell out of the window as he was moving a case.

The man who has not been names faces negligent GBH charges.

The passengers on the train started a collection to raise funds for the girl and her family.

Bernd Niemeyer, Director of the company organising the train trip said: “On the way back, the passengers started the collection, on the train they managed to collect a four-figure sum.”

The child is still in a serious condition in hospital with head injuries.

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