Overview
- Emergency services responded around 13:00 Monday to Melanchthonstraße in Dresden’s Äußere Neustadt after a firework detonated in a student’s hand.
- Eyewitnesses reported the 15-year-old left the schoolyard during a break with friends and lit a device that exploded immediately.
- Police and paramedics treated the teen at the scene before transporting him to a hospital for further care.
- No additional injuries were reported from the misfire, according to information from the scene.
- Dresden police are examining the sequence of events and the firework’s origin, which local reporting described as illegal, with no update on the student’s prognosis.