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Cause of the fire at the Highfield Festival: Investigators are making progress

Burning Ferris wheel at Highfield Festival / Photo: -/spm-gruppe/dpa
Burning Ferris wheel at Highfield Festival / Photo: -/spm-gruppe/dpa

Thousands of people celebrate at the Highfield rock festival near Leipzig. Suddenly the gondola of a Ferris wheel goes up in flames and several people are injured. The first results of the investigation are now available.

In the search for the cause of the fire in the Ferris wheel at the Highfield Festival on Lake Störmthal near Leipzig, investigators are one step closer. According to an initial assessment, material underneath the ride played a role, as the Leipzig police wrote on X. The material caught fire "in a way that is not yet known" and then spread to a gondola.

The investigation is ongoing. As things stand, at least 23 people were injured in the incident at the rock festival, including first responders and police officers.

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