Overview

• Berlin police and the LKA homicide unit are investigating a midnight explosion that destroyed a parked BMW in Schöneberg and seriously injured a 22-year-old relative of the vehicle’s owner.
• Investigators treat the detonation as a targeted attack, deploy explosives specialists and the Analytical Task Force, and report no indications of a political motive or clan links at this stage.
• In Niedernhall, prosecutors obtained a detention warrant for an 18-year-old accused of Totschlag after a 12-year-old on a bicycle died on a supermarket parking lot; a court will determine the applicable juvenile or adult law.
• A 76-year-old died and three people were seriously injured in a head-on collision on the B8 near Vilshofen, with the road shut for hours and an expert appointed; separate fatal motorcycle crashes were reported in Achim and on the B500 near Baiersbronn.
• Police continue technical reconstructions and witness appeals after serious collisions on the B45 near Eppertshausen and the B173 near Grumbach, while in Berlin-Mitte an emergency doctor’s vehicle struck a cyclist and a responding police car injured a pedestrian.