Police said in an initial count, five people were dead in the accident of fireworks during the New Year celebration in Germany, and one police officer in a hard firework was injured badly on New year fireworks accident. Germans mostly celebrate New Year’s Eve with great usage of fireworks, which results in a high number of injuries, deaths. They also increase noise and air pollution every year on this day.
Every year, Germans debate prohibiting these powerful devices because they produce noise as well as air pollution. A police officer, Florian Nath, said, This year, 13 people were injured and one is in serious condition as they wanted to enforce the law. Police said that, as in the previous years, there was no major violence and no serious incidents and Police held up 330 people overnight in the capital Berlin.
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According to local police, Near Paderborn in the northwest region of North Rhine-Westphalia, a 24-year-old man had died after exploding a pyrotechnic rocket, and police believe that he made this powerful weapon himself. A 45-year-old man died due to serious head injuries when he set fire to a pyrotechnic bomb in Oschatz in Saxony. According to police, A Pyrotechnic bomb is a F4 category firework which requires a special permit to purchase.
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The Police Spokesperson said that another 50-year-old man died on the spot because of serious head injuries in the town of Hartha, when he tried to blow up a pyrotechnic pipe bomb. In the north near Hamburg, a young man of 20 years died during the lighting of pyrotechnic fireworks. The last one died in Kremen near Berlin. According to police, he died from an “inappropriate manipulation” of pyrotechnic fireworks. In a similar incident, three other people were seriously injured.
