A fireworks explosion ripped the head off a 25-year-old man in France

Several people were killed in New Year’s fireworks accidents in Europe.

In Boofzheim, France, about 30 kilometers south of Strasbourg, an exploding structure ripped off the head of a 25-year-old man, the MTI wrote, according to local authorities. Another 24-year-old man was also injured in the face in the accident, being treated at a hospital.

The circumstances of the case are not yet clear. According to a local newspaper, the fireworks did not explode at first when they were lit and thrown, but when the two men approached them for it, they did.

The sale and use of fireworks to individuals has been prohibited in this region since the beginning of December.

Also in Germany, at least one man was killed by a fireworks display: a 24-year-old man in Rietz-Neuendorf, Brandenburg, in the eastern part of the country. The structure was homemade, local police said, confiscating additional homemade pyrotechnic devices at the site.

In a building in Osnabrück, West Germany, a 21-year-old man was also fatally injured by a homemade fireworks display: limbs were torn off. Two other young people were also injured in the accident, one of them seriously. Police said the building was life-threatening. A 24-year-old was also seriously injured in a fireworks display that exploded prematurely in the town of Springstille in central Germany. You may lose your sight, police said. In Essen, a gang of young people attacked the police with fireworks.

A grocery store in the Neukölln district of Berlin caught fire and collapsed. The fire likely originated in a garbage can and spread into the store, where fireworks were also being sold. Due to the latter circumstance, the firefighters were unable to get close to the flames everywhere, eventually causing the building to collapse. No one was injured in this fire.

The trade in fireworks was also banned in Germany before New Year’s Eve, but their use was not.

In the northern Italian city of Asti, a 13-year-old boy was killed by fireworks at a New Year’s Eve party. His abdomen was seriously injured, police said. The boy could still be transported alive to the hospital, but he died there.

Dozens of people in Italy were injured by fireworks, although far fewer than in previous years. In Milan, a man lost two fingers.

In Iraq, more than sixty were injured in the capital and several rural cities by the explosion of fireworks and cutting ammunition from a blind shot. A man died. Half of the injuries were caused by a fire at a Kirkuk shopping center, authorities said, adding that not all cases were yet known.

In the Philippines, about fifty people were injured by fireworks lit on New Year’s Eve, which is far less than in previous years, because this time the use of pyrotechnic devices was banned. Each of the fifty injured had to be transferred to a hospital. One of them was injured by stray sharp ammunition.

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