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At least 11 people were killed and several injured during New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world on Thursday.
At least 11 people died and several were injured during New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world on Thursday.
Eight young men and women were reported dead in a cabin in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning during a New Year’s Eve celebration, police said on Friday.
Police responded to a call around 10 am (09:00 GMT) and went to a house in Tribistovo where several people were found dead.
Bosnian and Croatian media said the eight were high school and college students.
In Turkey, Norwegian Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui was hospitalized with eye injuries following a fireworks accident.
Elabdellaoui injured both eyes, according to Dr. Vedat Kaya of Liv Hospital in Ankara.
While the Norwegian did not lose sight, one eye was much more severely injured than the other, Kaya said, adding that the player was “better today” but that it was too early to rule out possible long-term consequences.
Galatasaray’s Omar Elabdellaoui, left, hasn’t lost his sight, but the doctor said one eye was much more injured than the other. [Ian Macnicol/Reuters]
Meanwhile, in eastern France, a 25-year-old man was killed when fireworks exploded after he went to inspect them.
In Germany, at least one death was reported early Friday of a 24-year-old man in the eastern city of Rietz-Neuendorf, who was killed when homemade fireworks exploded shortly after midnight.
Another case of improvised fireworks explosion endangered the life of a man and two others were injured near the western German city of Osnabrück. They were working with explosives, trying to create a pyrotechnics, when there was an explosion shortly after midnight.
At least one more injury was reported in the central town of Springstille when a firework detonated prematurely Thursday night.
Police in the western city of Essen also reported being attacked with professional-grade fireworks by a gang of youths.
In Dortmund, a group of about 50 people caused a new uproar: several of them emptied fire extinguishers in the street, launched fireworks at passing cars and set fire to a garbage container.
The celebratory shots killed a Syrian woman living as a refugee in eastern Lebanon and struck a plane parked at Beirut airport in two separate incidents, the official Lebanese news agency said on Friday.
At least one civilian was killed and 25 wounded in gunfire and New Year’s Eve fireworks in different parts of Iraq, a health official said Friday.
Fireworks were set off in various parts of the country despite the government’s ban on mass gatherings to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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