12 injured in explosion at German residential building: Officials
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North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Hebert Riel told the regional legislature that 10 firefighters and two police officers were injured in the blaze at the multi-storey building in Rantingen. Rayal said that the suspicious movement of two residents was reported in the morning following which fire brigade personnel and police personnel rushed to the spot.
At least a dozen people were injured, some of them seriously, in an explosion at a residential building in western Germany on Thursday. A senior security official gave this information. North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Hebert Riel told the regional legislature that 10 firefighters and two police officers were injured in the blaze at the multi-storey building in Rantingen. Rayal said that the suspicious movement of two residents was reported in the morning following which fire brigade personnel and police personnel rushed to the spot.
When they forced open the door of the apartment, a person detonated it using an unknown object, they said. Pictures from the scene broadcast by television channels showed police snipers positioned on the balcony of a building across the street and smoke billowing from the top floor of the building. Police said the operation is on and could not immediately give further details. Significantly, the city of Ratingen is located in the north eastern part of the state capital Düsseldorf.
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