Hamburg: A storm surge washed over the fish market on Monday evening. According to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), the water of the Elbe rose by around 9.44 p.m. to around 1.5 meters above the mean high water level and thus spilled over the quay edges at the fish market. The police had already advised in the afternoon to avoid the affected area and, above all, to leave lower-lying areas, especially near the Elbe, as well as in Hafencity and in the port. Vehicles should be taken to higher ground. The police situation center sent the all-clear in the evening. The German Weather Service (DWD) initially issued a storm warning for Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg until Tuesday night due to the storm.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), “Zacharias” was created by the merger of two low-pressure areas that moved from Great Britain and Italy towards Poland. The main wind field was over the southern Baltic Sea.
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Eggesin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: A 19-year-old was stabbed and injured in Eggesin (Western Pomerania-Greifswald) in a violent clash between what is believed to be two groups. The incident happened in a small park on Monday evening, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. As a result, two suspects aged 14 and 22 were identified. A knife that could be the murder weapon was found at the scene. The police were only alerted by a witness when the 19-year-old had already been taken to a clinic.
The 22-year-old was arrested as a suspect, and the 14-year-old was handed over to the youth welfare office. The background to the incident is still unclear. Each group should have belonged to about four to six people. The victim suffered a stab wound on his back, but is said not to be life-threateningly injured and initially remained in the clinic. All those involved so far are said to be Germans from the Vorpommern-Greifswald region. There is a suspicion of dangerous bodily harm.
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Schweiterkirchen, Bavaria: Unknown people shot a kestrel with an airgun bullet in Upper Bavaria. The bird’s injuries were so severe that it had to be euthanized, police said on Tuesday. A woman discovered the injured animal last week in Schweitkirchen (Pfaffenhofen district) and brought it to a bird of prey sanctuary. The police are now investigating a crime under the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
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Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia: The American bomb from World War II found during construction work in Düsseldorf has been defused. The residents were able to return to their houses and apartments after the defusing, as the city of Düsseldorf announced on Twitter on Tuesday morning. Around 13,000 people were affected by the evacuation within a radius of 500 meters. At 2:45 a.m., the explosive ordnance disposal service had successfully defused the find. The road closures were lifted immediately afterwards.
The bomb weighed ten hundredweight, i.e. 500 kilograms, it said on Monday evening. There were restrictions on train traffic. Rooms in two schools were open to affected residents, and bus transfers were organized for both. Numerous patient transports were also carried out during the evacuation period. According to the city, more than 800 callers informed themselves about the situation via the danger phone.
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Erfurt, Thuringia: In Erfurt, two suspected burglars opened the door of the resident of the apartment they broke into after he locked himself out during the chase. According to the police, the 21 and 26-year-old men broke into an apartment building on Saturday evening. They knocked and rang a doorbell to make sure the apartment was empty.
They then opened the door with tools. Contrary to expectations, the scantily clad resident appeared in front of the men, who then fled. The 39-year-old resident took up the chase and caught the intruders in the house. Unfortunately, the door slammed behind him, the key was still in the apartment. So he asked the young men to open his door again – which they did before the police were waiting for them in front of the apartment.
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Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia: A 23-year-old drove a car into four girls on a sidewalk and injured them. The man lost control of his sports car on Sunday afternoon in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal and drove into the three twelve-year-olds and the three-year-old girl, the police said. The children’s injuries had to be treated in the hospital, but the girls were not in mortal danger.
The driver crashed his car into a house wall. “After an argument with upset relatives of the children,” the 23-year-old suffered minor injuries. Because he may have been on drugs, he had to hand in a blood sample and his driver’s license.
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Heilgeisthof, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania: After an accident in which five people were seriously injured in Heilgeisthof (West Pomerania-Greifswald), the police are investigating the alleged cause of the accident for driving without a license and negligent bodily harm. The 39-year-old is said to have got into the opposite lane with his van on Sunday on federal highway 109, where he collided head-on with a car in oncoming traffic, a police spokesman said on Monday. A family with two daughters aged 7 and 15 was in the other accident car. All four inmates from the Vorpommern-Greifswald district came to a clinic in Greifswald with serious injuries.
According to the police, the investigation revealed that the van driver, who was also seriously injured, did not have a valid driver’s license for the van. An expert from Dekra is now to find out why the 39-year-old suddenly drifted into the oncoming lane in the direction of Greifswald with the van. A rescue helicopter, four ambulance teams and several fire brigades were deployed.
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Toddin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: A car collided with a free-running horse on the federal highway 321 near Toddin (Ludwigslust-Parchim). The 56-year-old passenger was injured and had to be taken to a clinic, a police spokesman said. The horse did not survive the collision on Monday morning and died at the scene of the accident. According to previous investigations, the animal had previously escaped from a pasture and was traveling alone. The 53-year-old driver was no longer able to brake in time. He was unharmed. The car had to be towed.
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Pfalzgrafenweiler, Baden-Württemberg: A 31-year-old driver was fatally injured in an accident in the Freudenstadt district. As the police announced on Monday, the man was traveling on district road 4775 near Pfalzgrafenweiler on Sunday evening when he left the road for an initially unclear reason and left the road to the right. The car collided with wood lying on the side of the road, rolled over and landed on its roof. The man died at the scene of the accident.
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