Betzdorf: Man realizes that he is on the wrong train and pulls the emergency brake

Betzdorf: Man realizes that he is on the wrong train and pulls the emergency brake

Betzdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate: In Betzdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, a man pulled the emergency brake on a regional express train around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening. As reported by the police, the drunk passenger had previously found that he was on the wrong train. Since the passenger had already noticed the officers in the area of ​​the Struthof in Betzdorf earlier in the evening when he asked the driver waiting at the traffic light system for a fire and in this context himself was the victim of physical injury, he was taken into custody by the police officers on account of self-endangering behavior taken.

Source: Police Betzdorf

Hamburg: Bomb in the Schanzenviertel defused early in the morning

Hamburg: After a long delay, a World War II bomb was defused in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel early Tuesday morning. According to the fire brigade, around 5,000 people had to leave their homes in the restricted radius of 300 meters. Tim Mälzer’s “Bullerei” restaurant was also evacuated, as the chef and restaurateur announced on Instagram. The airspace above the site was closed and the operation of several S-Bahn trains was suspended. Emergency accommodation was set up in the St. Pauli vocational school on Budapester Strasse.

The evacuation in the affected area was already completed around 10 p.m., as the police announced on Twitter. In the meantime it was said that the defusing was delayed due to the special location of the bomb. During the night, the police announced that certain work equipment was required, which was currently being procured. “The first attempt at the planned defusing could not be continued,” the fire department tweeted.

At around 3.45 a.m., the second attempt to defuse could finally begin – with the note: “There may be a loud bang.” Only after a second partial detonation did the police announce that the 500-pound bomb had been defused: “The bomb has been defused. The measures are now being gradually reduced. We wish you a good night!” She tweeted.

Source: DPA

Elmshorn: Train station closed after fire – train cancellations in the north

Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein: A fire in an allotment garden in Schleswig-Holstein had disrupted train traffic in the north Germany affected on Tuesday morning. According to Deutsche Bahn, regional and long-distance traffic were affected.

In the meantime, no trains ran on the route between Elmshorn and Neumünster and Elmshorn station had to be completely closed. The train route between Kiel and Hamburg was also affected by the fire. In some cases, long-distance and regional trains were completely eliminated, as a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn said.

The disruption to railway operations was triggered by a fire in Elmshorn, in which cables on the track system were damaged.

Source: DPA

Düren: Cellar fire blocks residents’ escape route

Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia: A basement fire smoked the stairwell of a residential building in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia and blocked the escape route for residents on the upper floors. Three adults and five children came to hospital for treatment, as reported by the Düren fire department on Tuesday. Around 70 emergency services led the people through the stairwell with fire protection hoods on Monday evening and partly rescued them from the outside using ladders. 20 people were medically examined. The cause of the fire on Monday evening was initially unclear.

source: DPA

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Fatal penis injections: suspect disappeared

Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia: In the trial for a fatal penis enlargement in Wuppertal, the accused disappeared and is now wanted with an arrest warrant. When the process was to continue on Monday at the district court, the 46-year-old’s place remained empty. His defense attorney said his client emailed him around midnight that he was unable to attend due to a gastrointestinal infection.

Since the court had no certificate, the police were called in. The man’s employer told officials at his place of work that he had signed off for a short vacation to Spain. The co-prosecutor, who represents the mother of the dead man, then spoke up: According to the defendant’s Instagram account, he is currently in Spain.

The court then issued an arrest warrant for the man. The waiter is accused of giving a 32-year-old several injections of silicone oil to enlarge his penis. According to the indictment, he died because the silicone oil got into the bloodstream and caused blood poisoning.

Overloaded van: Police stop 14 people on beds instead of seats

Gelchsheim, Bavaria: Bed instead of seats: Four men and a woman were lying unsecured on a bed in the back of a van during a trip in Gelchsheim (Würzburg district). On Sunday, fourteen people between the ages of 20 and 66 were traveling in the overloaded van instead of the permitted nine passengers, a police spokesman said on Monday.

During the check, the investigators also found that there were two arrest warrants against a 34-year-old man. He must now serve a replacement prison sentence, said the spokesman. The 24-year-old driver is also being investigated because he was driving without a valid driver’s license. Nine of the fourteen people were allowed to continue driving after the check. The other five had to organize another ride, according to a police statement.

46-year-old dies after purse robbery

Uelzen, Lower Saxony: A 46-year-old fell badly when she stole a handbag in Lower Saxony and later died. As the police announced on Monday in Lüneburg, the woman succumbed to her injuries in a hospital several days after the crime in Uelzen. The perpetrator was still on the run, investigators were looking for witnesses, among other things.

The exact cause of death is still unknown, an autopsy should bring more information, the police said. The unknown, approximately 35-year-old perpetrator had snatched the woman’s handbag so brutally last Wednesday on a sidewalk near a hardware store in Uelzen that she fell and was seriously injured. He then fled with the bag.

source: AFP

Fire in the donkey mill in Stuttgart causes high damage

Leinfelden-Echterdingen: A fire in the so-called donkey mill in Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart caused damage in the six-figure range on Monday morning. A police spokeswoman said the fire in the main building was reported around 5:30 a.m. Post-extinguishing work is currently still in progress, it was said. As far as is known, no one was injured. Nothing is known about the cause of the fire.

The donkey mill is an old mill that now houses a wood-fired bakery, shop and inn. A few donkeys also live on the premises. According to current knowledge, none of the animals was injured.

Dangerous current: seven bathers rescued from the Baltic Sea

Graal-Müritz, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania: Lifeguards rescued four children and three adults from the Baltic Sea in front of Graal-Müritz (Rostock district). The cause was dangerous currents that formed on Sunday at wind speeds of around five, especially on the Baltic Sea groynes, as Andre Rieckhoff, head of the German Life Saving Society (DLRG) Graal-Müritz, said on Monday. A ten-year-old from Rostock – non-swimmer – swallowed so much water that she had to be taken to a clinic by ambulance.

The problem is that children and adults can still stand at a certain distance from the beach in the bathing area, but the ground at groynes is washed out so that the water there is suddenly three meters deep. Two women had tried to pull the ten-year-old away from the groynes. In the end, all three had to be rescued. Shortly thereafter, first a mother with another child and then two girls got into such dangerous current situations. The rescuers noticed this in time.

The DLRG had hoisted yellow flags. Then non-swimmers and unsafe swimmers should not go into the water and no bathing aids should be used.

source: DPA

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Farmers in the north grow watermelons

Gifhorn, Lower Saxony: Watermelons do not necessarily have to come from the south – the fruits are also grown in Lower Saxony. The Eickenhofer Spargelreich in the district of Gifhorn is trying the exotic fruit for the first time this season for sale in the supermarket. “The first fruits are ripe at the end of July or beginning of August,” said Managing Director Paul Schofer. The regional cultivation brings the advantage that the long transport route from southern Europe is eliminated, he said. The melon can then mature longer before it goes on sale. She’ll be cuter that way.

Farmers have also been growing watermelons in the Uelzen district for several years. “We want to position ourselves broadly as a vegetable farm and market the sweet fruits,” said Philipp Steffan from the Brummelkamp farm. Even if the harvest period is short, unlike in Spain, for example.

Source: DPA

Sauerland: Police save bag full of kittens

Menden, North Rhine-Westphalia: A whole bag full of kittens was collected by a police patrol in Menden in Sauerland. Witnesses had alerted the officials when they discovered the apparently abandoned animals on a federal highway at around 2.30 a.m. on Sunday morning on the way home from celebrations. As the police announced on Monday, the witnesses managed to capture three of the kittens in the first attempt. The alerted police were then able to arrest two more animals. The young animals were then taken to the police station in a police officer’s pocket and handed over to animal welfare.

source: DPA

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