Twenty-two police officers also suffered minor injuries in the incident. “We can’t be sure whether they will survive this battle,” he said. Of the nine people who suffered serious injuries, two police officers and three firefighters were fighting for their lives with burns across much of their bodies, Hendele said. Investigations showed the man had stockpiled flammable liquids in the building, indicating he had prepared for the attack, police said. Angry at this act, for which there is no justification.”Ī special operations unit detained a 57-year-old German man as a suspect hours later. “We are deeply shocked," said Thomas Hendele, who heads the administration in Mettmann county, of which Ratingen is a part. What started out as a routine operation turned into an inferno when a man opened the apartment door and threw out a burning object that exploded into a fireball, severely injuring the first responders. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP) Federico Gambarini/AP Show More Show Less One day after the serious explosion in a high-rise building in Ratingen that left five people critically injured, investigators are trying to clarify what happened. (Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa via AP) Rolf Vennenbernd/AP Show More Show Less 14 of15 From left, head of the Ratingen fire department Rene Schubert, chief police officer Dietmar Henning and commissioner of the authorities Silke Wehmhörner attend a joint news conference in Duesseldorf, Germany, Friday May 12, 2023.
Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said that 10 firefighters and two police officers were injured in the blast at a high-rise building in the town of Ratingen. A senior security official says at least a dozen people have been injured in an explosion at a residential building in western Germany. 12 of15 13 of15 A person is taken to an ambulance in front of a high-rise building in Ratingen, Germany, Thursday May 11, 2023.
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