Shootings, riots, fires and other incidents occurred on New Year’s Eve in the United States, the Netherlands, Austria and other European and American countries, resulting in casualties.
The American Broadcasting Corporation’s KABC TV station in Los Angeles quoted the Hawthorne, California, Police Department as reporting that a shooting occurred on New Year’s Eve there, resulting in one death and four injuries.
According to the report, after receiving the alarm call, the Hawthorn City Police Department dispatched police officers to respond at 0:30 on the 1st. The crime occurred near a local shopping mall, and the five injured were sent to the hospital for treatment. Among them, one adult woman died, one was in critical condition, and the other three were in stable condition.
Police have not made any arrests and the case remains under investigation.
A shooting occurred at a New Year’s celebration in downtown Los Angeles on the 1st. The Los Angeles Times reported, citing sources from the Los Angeles Police Department, that the shooting resulted in 2 deaths and 8 injuries.
Across the Atlantic on New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands, police arrested more than 200 people across the country and dozens of police officers were injured during the arrests.
A spokesman for the Dutch police told local media that police in several cities were attacked with fireworks and rocks in a night of frequent serious incidents, including multiple “unacceptable” violent incidents.
Reuters reported that in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, more than a hundred cars and other transportation vehicles were set on fire; in the capital Amsterdam and The Hague and other places, local governments had to dispatch riot police to disperse the perpetrators; in Haarlem, a man died after setting fire Accidents caused by fireworks.
In the German capital Berlin, police arrested about 390 people on New Year’s Eve, including many people who set off fireworks in violation of safety regulations. 54 police officers were injured while enforcing the law, 30 of whom were injured due to fireworks.
Berlin police spokesperson Anja Dischke said that in addition to the 1,000 police officers patrolling in police cars, the police also deployed more than 3,200 additional police officers to maintain law and order on New Year’s Eve. Currently, the police have launched investigations into 720 incidents that occurred in Berlin from 6 pm on December 31, 2023 to 6 am on January 1 this year.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur quoted news from a hospital in Berlin as reporting that the hospital received 28 patients who were seriously injured due to setting off fireworks and firecrackers on New Year’s Eve. Some of the injured suffered injuries to their hands, faces or eyes, and some suffered burns. , and some require amputation.
In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, there were multiple attacks on emergency department personnel on New Year’s Eve, and 21 police officers were injured on duty. Deaths caused by fireworks also occurred in places such as Koblenz and Boxberg.
Accidents caused by fireworks don’t stop there. Agence France-Presse quoted Italian police as saying that one person died and 274 others were injured after setting off fireworks and firecrackers on New Year’s Eve. In Switzerland, a man died and two others were injured after setting off fireworks.
In the southeastern Austrian city of Graz, a fire broke out in a bar during the New Year celebrations in the early morning of the 1st, resulting in one death and 21 serious injuries.
Local police said that at least three of the injured were in critical condition and were receiving treatment in the intensive care unit.
According to the Associated Press, the fire started at the entrance of the bar. The cause of the fire is not yet clear, but investigators are looking into a technical glitch.
In London, the British capital, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death after a fight with others while watching fireworks on Primrose Hill north of London on New Year’s Eve. Primrose Hill stopped accepting tourists on the 1st to allow police and forensic doctors to investigate the crime scene.
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2024-01-03 01:20:00
