A total of 363 people were injured by fireworks in Berlin during New Year celebrations, fuelling the debate about a possible ban on the pyrotechnics in Germany. Of those injured, 52 were hospitalised, ...

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 ...

Five people have been killed and dozens of emergency workers are injured as firework chaos overshadowed New Year’s Eve celebrations in Germany.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Jan 7 — 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 ...

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 ...