An apartment in Cottbus caught fire on Friday. A woman died. Witnesses reportedly heard explosions coming from the apartment beforehand.
A dead person was found after a fire in an apartment building in Cottbus. The dead person was in the apartment where the fire had broken out, a police spokesman said. Two firefighters were also injured during the firefighting operations. After the firefighting operations were completed on Friday afternoon, the police began to secure evidence. According to a report in “Bild”, the body in the apartment is believed to be that of a woman.
For reasons that are still unclear, the apartment on the seventh floor of the eleven-story apartment building on Karl-Marx-Straße caught fire on Friday morning. Witnesses reportedly heard explosions coming from the apartment. The police spokesman confirmed that some of the apartment’s windows had shattered. The window panes flew up to 50 meters, it was reported. Residents of the building were brought to safety. As the police spokesman announced, the streets around the building in Cottbus’s city center were closed off over a wide area. Drivers were asked to avoid the entire city center.
