Bakery in the Uckermark explodes: one seriously injured - sniffer dogs search the rubble for people
Created: 05/13/2022, 14:44
By: Marc Dimitriu
Brandenburg, Lychen: There was a violent explosion in a bakery in the city center.
© Jens Kalaene/dpa
In the small town of Lychen, a bakery has exploded.
So far there is one seriously injured, the background is still completely unclear.
Lychen – There was a violent explosion in a bakery in Lychen in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg, and one person was seriously injured.
The building in the city center was completely destroyed on Friday morning, there is only a mountain of rubble, said a spokesman for the Northeast regional control center.
Four neighboring houses had to be evacuated.
The cause of the explosion is not yet known, a police spokeswoman said.
The injured person, whose age and gender were initially unknown, was flown to a hospital in Berlin by helicopter.
The fire brigade and civil protection work: sniffer dogs search the rubble for people
The work of the fire brigade and civil protection was still going on in the morning.
Tracker dogs should be looking for more people in the rubble.
The neighboring buildings would need to be checked to see if they are still habitable.
The newspaper
BZ
had reported.
In Bavaria there was recently an explosion in a factory in the Upper Palatinate.
(dpa)
