One dead and one seriously injured in the fireworks explosion in Hennef

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Bang with dangerous side effects: a man ignites a firecracker in his hand (archive image)

Photo: Patrick Pleul / dpa

In order to avoid accidents caused by the improper use of firecrackers and rockets and thus to relieve the hospitals already extremely stressed by Corona, a sales ban on New Year's Eve fireworks also applied at this turn of the year.

The majority of the citizens found that correct: In a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the news agency dpa, 66 percent of those questioned supported the measure that the federal and state governments agreed on because of the corona pandemic.

Nevertheless, firecrackers could be heard and rockets to be seen, not a few of which probably came from illegal sources.

As every year, there were serious accidents during the bang.

In the explosion of a fireworks in

, one man was killed and another was seriously injured. The two men, 37 and 39 years old, had celebrated New Year's Eve with a group of ten. Shortly after midnight, according to witnesses, they had separated a little from the group. Suddenly there was a very loud bang and the two were seriously injured on the ground.

The 37-year-old died despite attempts at resuscitation at the scene of the accident in the Hennef district of Hüchel; the 39-year-old was taken to a clinic with life-threatening injuries. A police spokesman suspected early Saturday morning that the fireworks

could have been

a

. The criminal police started the investigation. "Bild" had previously reported on the accident.

At a private New Year's Eve party

, twelve people were injured in the explosion of illegal fireworks.

All injured people had to be taken to clinics for treatment, the fire brigade announced on New Year's morning.

Fortunately, there were no very serious injuries.

After initial investigations, the police assume that

ignited

at the celebration in the Friedrichshagen district

.

There is no other way to explain the number and severity of the injuries, said a spokesman.

According to the fire brigade, the youngest injured is an eleven-year-old boy, the other injured are adolescents and adults.

The fire brigade was alerted around 12:10 a.m. and deployed around 40 emergency services.

In

, a man was

life-threateningly injured

when a firecracker, presumably also a

one, was ignited

, as a police spokesman said.

In

, around midnight at the central Schlossplatz, clashes broke out between party-goers and the police.

Some aggressive party-goers

the

pelted them

.

The police said they used batons and pepper spray against the crowd.

One police officer suffered a bang and two others were slightly injured.

Late detonation of a »spherical bomb« - a 23-year-old dies in Austria

A 23-year-old man was

fatally injured in

a fireworks explosion in

New Year's Eve

. A 21-year-old was also seriously injured, as the APA news agency reported on Saturday. The men had therefore met with other people on a meadow in the municipality of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf southwest of Vienna to celebrate New Year's Eve. They would have

detonated

bombs. When one of the bombs did not detonate immediately, four of the group approached the fireworks, which then exploded. A 19-year-old and another man were also slightly injured, according to the police.

A twelve-year-old was killed in a New Year's Eve bang

in the

.

Another boy was seriously injured and taken to hospital after the incident in Haaksbergen near the German border, the police said on Twitter on Friday.

The two children had therefore not handled the fireworks themselves.

According to the broadcaster NOS, they watched a man

powder

with a so-called

he had made

.

The police arrested a man and started an investigation.