Eighty-six camels were killed on Thursday morning, when flames engulfed a building at a family-run animal farm in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wüttermberg. The blaze also caused €1 million worth of damage, said police.
The fire which killed 14 people at a workshop for the disabled in the Black Forest on Monday was probably caused by a gas leak, officials said on Tuesday evening.
At least 14 people were killed on Monday when a fire spread through a workshop for people with disabilities in southern Germany. Seven more are said to have been injured.
A young girl died after she and five others were caught up in a fire in a hay barn where they were playing with a lighter. German officials found her body on Monday evening.
Fire fighters have found the bodies of two women killed in a house fire on Monday morning. Two young girls are missing, presumed dead – but German police said the building was so dangerous they cannot be retrieved.
Spanish police suspect the body of a man found as wildfires rage north of the Spanish resort of Marbella to be that of a 54-year-old German who returned to his home despite an official evacuation.
A German teenager was killed on Tuesday when his flat blew up, throwing him from the third-floor window. Police have launched a murder investigation and arrested the father of the boy’s girlfriend.
Four young children died in a house fire in western Germany early on Friday morning. Firemen did manage to rescue two adults presumed to be the parents and a baby, all of whom are said to have been injured.
Three children who died on Friday – two found dead and one seriously injured in their burning home – were probably victims of a crime, say German investigators trying to find out what happened.
People in Cologne were told to keep their windows closed on Thursday, despite the hot weather, as a fire swept through a rubbish sorting plant overnight, sending a smoke cloud over the city.
Faced with the problem of getting fire rescue trucks into tunnels – and then out again – a German firm has made a special push-me-pull-you vehicle with a cabin at each end.
Police are searching for suspects after the seventh fire within a month broke out in an apartment building in western Germany on Friday. The flat was completely wrecked but no-one was injured.
A German woman in Osnabrück has been fined €800 and handed a 15-month suspended sentence for burning her father’s corpse in an Easter bonfire - and collecting his pension after his death.
A motorboat burst into flames and drifted around a harbour in northern Germany on Friday afternoon, injuring one person and causing an estimated quarter of a million euros in damage.
The trial of a pensioner who allegedly set a homeless man on fire in July began Thursday in the western German town of Essen. The homeless man died from severe burns.
A family from North Rhine-Westphalia will come home from their Christmas holiday to find their house exploded while they were away, leaving nothing but a big pile of rubble.
A 79-year-old man from the village of Nindorf in Lower Saxony has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 72-year-old wife, dismembering her and leaving parts of her body on fire by the side of a road.
Two young girls escaped from a fire in their home by jumping out of the window – and safely onto a trampoline placed there by quick-thinking neighbours, police in Bavaria said over the weekend.
