Overview
- Three members of a family (ages 33, 30 and 6) were found dead after an early‑morning house explosion in Albstadt, according to police.
- The mayor cited a suspected gas blast, the gas supply on the street was shut off as a precaution, and the cause remains unconfirmed with an attack not suspected.
- Roughly 200 responders and search dogs combed the rubble for hours, multiple neighboring homes were damaged, and evacuees received support with most later allowed to return.
- In Cologne, a deflagration on the third floor of the Löwenbräu Hotel shattered windows and injured up to three people, including one in critical condition and a firefighter with minor injuries.
- Cologne prosecutors and police report indications the critically injured man may have started the hotel fire himself, with criminal and technical investigations continuing.