At least one person was killed in an explosion at Rotterdam’s Europoort on Thursday. Several others were injured. The incident occurred shortly after noon on Moezelweg, on the grounds of Gunvor Energy Rotterdam.
A major fire at a parking lot in Louvres, France, near Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, caused significant disruption on Tuesday afternoon. Dozens of cars caught fire at a parking lot where travelers leave their vehicles before departing from the nearby airport.
Slovak authorities shot and killed a female bear and her two cubs after the mother bear seriously injured a man. The animals were considered an immediate danger to residents and road users in the Turany area, in the north of the country.
Last weekend, a French animal rights activist bought a lobster for 300 euros at a restaurant and immediately released it into the Mediterranean Sea.
A woman and her five-month-old baby died after a boat capsized in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty. The boat’s captain has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment.
Suspicions that a second “tactical” drone was in the air during the foiled drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport are gaining traction. According to the German newspaper Bild, new analyses by investigators and experts indicate that a second drone maintained visual contact with the explosive drone found on the ground and transmitted live footage and control signals to the operators.
A 60-year-old British man from Porthcawl, in South Wales, has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for hiding his deceased mother’s body in a freezer in his living room for almost three years. Meanwhile, he continued to collect her pension and social security benefits, according to various British media outlets.
The Belgian federal police are searching for two men who, on Friday in Samrée, a suburb of La Roche-en-Ardenne in Belgium, robbed a couple of tourists and then set their camper on fire. The owner suffered severe burns while trying to rescue his dogs from the vehicle.
On Monday, two teenagers were struck by lightning in the French Pyrenees during a mountain hike near Cauterets, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. A 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest. He and a 21-year-old man were transported to the hospital in Tarbes by helicopter.
A 22-year-old man is in critical condition after falling from the Brabo Fountain on Antwerp’s Grote Markt during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Footage circulating online shows him losing his balance while climbing and plummeting from a height of about ten meters.