DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of fans of German soccer club Schalke fought with rivals from Borussia Dortmund and Cologne in a wooded area, Dortmund police said Sunday.

The Schalke supporters were on their way back to Gelsenkirchen on a train following their team’s match at Magdeburg when someone pulled the emergency cord and several fans disembarked the train.

After a delay, the train continued but the emergency brake was activated again two minutes later near the Dortmund-Scharnhorst train station and a “larger group of people left the train and ran into a nearby wooded area” for “a physical alteration” against “violent Dortmund and Cologne fans,” the police said in a statement which did not mention any injuries.

Police encountered around 300 Schalke fans on a forest path, and aro

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