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Fatal Accidents and Violence Mark New Year's EveOver 4,000 police officers deployed in Berlin; two 18-year-olds died from homemade fireworks; multiple victims suffered severe amputations.
- Two young men died in Bielefeld from fatal facial injuries caused by homemade fireworks accidents.
- Berlin saw a deployment of more than 4,000 police officers with hundreds of arrests and numerous assaults on emergency personnel.
- The Berlin Trauma Hospital reported 25 patients with serious hand injuries, including eight children with permanent damage.
- Attacks on police and fires were also reported in Hamburg and Leipzig, while Munich experienced a largely peaceful New Year's celebration.
Especially tragic is that again eight children are involved, whose lives will be changed forever by these severe injuries.— This statement was made by a spokesperson from the Accident Hospital Berlin, describing the tragic consequences of injuries caused by illegal pyrotechnics.
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No police officer and no firefighter can simply get over this.— A spokesperson from the control center regarding the burden on emergency responders after the fatal accidents.
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