A fight on a French train involving an ax and a samurai sword leaves 4 students injured, including one victim with an amputated hand

Four young people were injured, two of them seriously, with an ax during a fight on Monday on a train outside Paris, police sources said, and the main suspect was arrested later.

One of the victims – all 16 or 17 years old – had a hand amputated and another had his skull split open.

Two others were slightly injured in the struggle, which another police source says broke out around 08:00 in the morning when the youths involved were on their way to the high school.

It was not immediately clear what sparked the fight, in which weapons including an axe, knife, samurai sword and baseball bats were used.

All the injured have been admitted to the hospital and none of them are in danger, said the source.

The main suspect, a 16-year-old, was later arrested at his home and taken into custody, another police source said.

An ax was found and confiscated during the search, they added.

The incident happened when the RER suburban Express train was at the Ozoir-la-Ferriere station in the southeast of Paris.

A message posted on the official X account of RER E said: “The incident that happened on the TUVA train at the moment at the Ozoir station requires the train to stay on the platform. We are waiting for the intervention of the police.”

A subsequent post said some cars were derailed in both directions due to a “train collision at Ozoir station.”

The RER E line runs east-west through Paris and its suburbs.