2023-05-11 12:53:12
Several people were injured in an explosion in an apartment in a high-rise building in Ratingen near Düsseldorf. According to preliminary findings, ten firefighters and two police officers were injured, some of them very seriously, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) reported on Thursday. A police spokeswoman spoke of eight critically injured emergency services and two other injured people.
The situation was still unclear hours after the explosion, special forces and snipers were on site. Banging noises could be heard again and again, as a dpa reporter reported on Thursday afternoon. The scene was cordoned off over a wide area.
According to the police, there was an explosion in an apartment in the high-rise building around 11:15 a.m. on Thursday. Reul reported that around 10 a.m. the homeowners’ association had informed the police that a resident’s mailbox was overflowing. The police then called in the fire brigade to open the door. A mother lives in the apartment with her son. There was fire in the room. The son triggered a detonation with an object that has not yet been identified.
A dpa reporter reported that there were numerous popping noises during operations several hours after the explosion. The police initially gave no information. Smoke was coming from an apartment on the top floor of the skyscraper. Special police forces could be seen on the roof above the affected apartment, on the balconies next to it and on the balconies in the neighboring house.
It is not known whether the man is still in the apartment, Reul reported to the committee. The woman was briefly seen on the balcony.
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