- Approximately 30 individuals sustain injuries in blaze at occasion close to Leipzig.
At the Highfield Festival in Leipzig, a blaze broke out, leaving over 30 individuals with injuries, as per police accounts. This includes four police officers who endured minor injuries due to smoke inhalation, as disclosed by a police spokesperson to the German Press Agency. Regrettably, the spokesperson couldn't immediately verify Red Cross of Germany's reports of two severely injured individuals.
Police sources allegedly state that two gondolas from the Ferris wheel ignited around 9:00 PM. By all accounts, they were quickly consumed by flames, as reported by a dpa reporter present at the scene. Festival-goers were gradually escorted off the Ferris wheel, and the two damaged gondolas were completely decimated by the fire. A fire department spokesperson then informed dpa that the situation had been brought under control.
The original report about the four injured police officers was released by the police spokesperson to the German Press Agency. The German Press Agency also reported the incident of the Ferris wheel gondolas catching fire, as stated by a dpa reporter.
