Five people died across Germany in accidents linked to legal and illegal fireworks in 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Police in Berlin have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in a fireworks explosion over the New Year's holiday that left a child ...

Berlin: Almost 1.5 million Germans backed a police union push Monday to ban fireworks on New Year's Eve after the latest celebrations were again marred by deaths, injuries and arrests. Critics have ...

Jan. 1 (UPI) --A largely peaceful New Year's Eve turned chaotic as fireworks killed five in several incidents across Germany, where hundreds also were arrested for rioting in Berlin and other cities.

BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Wednesday condemned a series of incidents on New Year’s Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked and injured, mostly with fireworks. Revellers ...

Berlin: Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said ...

“The severity of the injuries [this year] is unusual,” a spokesperson for the UKB hospital in Berlin, where small children were brought in for serious injuries from fireworks, told local media ...

But the latest celebrations were marred by the use of fireworks against emergency officials. In Berlin, 30 police officers and one firefighter were injured in confrontations or attacks during New ...

Germany's New Year's celebrations saw a busy night for emergency services, with four fatalities linked to explosions and numerous injuries from illegal fireworks. Berlin police reported 320 ...

"We can't let that happen this year." About 400 people were detained in Berlin alone on New Year's Eve for offences related to fireworks. In Berlin's Schoeneberg district, the explosion of a ...

It later updated the figure to 15. Berlin police issued an update in the early hours of Wednesday, praising the implementation of new no-fireworks zones in the city center — but still reporting ...