At least four workers were killed in the northern German city of Hamburg on Monday when a scaffolding collapsed at a
building site, a fire brigade spokeswoman said.
Thirteen people, including German tourists, have been killed after a cable car disconnected and fell near the summit of the Mottarone mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.
The pilot of a hot air balloon died
and two passengers were severely injured after it crashed near the banks of
the River Rhine in Germany, police said on Monday.
Two children, both eight years old, were
killed and five more seriously injured when a school bus slipped off an icy
road into a ditch in central Germany on Thursday, officials said.
Six German tourists have been killed in Italy and eleven more injured after a suspected drink driver piled into their group at speed in Lutago on the Austrian border.
A police officer’s response to drivers who slowed down and tried to photograph a fatal car accident in Bavaria has gone viral. The officer said he was illustrating the "bitter reality" of traffic fatalities.
An Austrian farmer has been ordered to pay €490,000 ($555,000) in compensation to the widower of a woman who was trampled to death by a herd of his cows in 2014.
A German BASE jumper died Monday when his
parachute failed to open in time after jumping off a cliff in Nazare, central
Portugal, maritime authorities said.
On Tuesday morning, a truck loaded with a liquid chemical substance overturned in the industrial park in Frankfurt's Griesheim district, sparking an alert in the Hesse city.
A hiker from Berlin fell to her death during poor weather conditions in the Austrian Alps on Monday evening. Rescuers first found her on Tuesday morning.
Two German tourists died and 12 other people were injured Friday when their minibus fell into a ravine on an Andean road in southern Peru, police said.
As the mercury rose into the twenties over the weekend bikers across Germany decided to make the most of the weather. On several occasions though the consequences were deadly.
Over 40 people were injured when two trams collided at a station just outside Cologne’s Altstadt on Thursday evening. Police suspect one driver of being drunk.
A family of four fell through the ice while walking across the Kleinhesseloher Lake in Munich’s famous English Garden park on Sunday. Emergency services were called to their aid.
Two full passenger trains came close to a frontal collision on Thursday at Utting train station after they had been directed towards the same platform.
At least three people were seriously injured at the Cologne Karneval when horses pulling a carriage bolted and ran into a crowd on Monday. The parade was temporarily stopped.
Onlookers at a carnival parade were left in shock on Sunday afternoon, when a young woman fell under the wheels of a tractor that was taking part in the parade and was immediately killed.
UPDATE: A young woman in southwest Germany has sustained serious injuries after her legs got into a witch’s cauldron full of hot water during carnival festivities on Saturday.
