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A fire broke out in the roof of a single-family home in Plauen. The cause is still unclear.
There was a fire in the roof of a single-family home in Plauen in the Vogtland district. The two residents, aged 87 and 71, were able to get to safety in time and were uninjured, the police said. Accordingly, the fire broke out on Saturday evening. It is still unclear how this happened. The fire department brought the fire under control and extinguished it before midnight. 21 firefighters were on duty.
In a traffic accident in Holzgerlingen, a 70-year-old motorcyclist and his 57-year-old pillion passenger were seriously injured after an 18-year-old driver presumably overlooked the motorcycle due to the low sun. Both were taken to hospital by ambulance, and a rescue helicopter also landed at the scene of the accident.
A 23-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car in Hamburg and suffered life-threatening injuries. She crossed the Lokstedter Steindamm at a bus stop where the pedestrian lights are switched off at night. A week earlier, a similar accident involving a drunk 41-year-old occurred at the same location.
One person died and three others were seriously injured in an accident on Autobahn 3 near Nentershausen. The vehicle left the road and landed on a slope. One person was trapped and was freed by the fire department. Two rescue helicopters were in action.
At least two adult wild boars and several young animals were killed in a wild boar accident on the A61 near Stromberg. The animals ran onto the road and collided with a 31-year-old's car, after which they were run over by at least ten other vehicles. The driver's vehicle was damaged and was no longer drivable.
In June 2025, police discovered the bodies of two women and a man in an apartment building in Lower Bavaria. A 38-year-old neighbor is accused of smothering and dismembering the women for sexual motives and of killing the second woman's partner. The trial begins on October 1st in the Deggendorf regional court.
During an overtaking maneuver on a country road in Aurich, a 20-year-old overlooked an oncoming motorcycle and collided head-on with the 34-year-old driver. The 20-year-old died at the scene of the accident, the other was flown to hospital with serious injuries. The 18-year-old passenger suffered shock.