Four dead, 33 injured in New Year fireworks accidents

In what was billed as a relatively “calm” year for New Year’s Eve celebrations by the Polish police, four people died and several others were injured across the country in fireworks explosions celebrating the New Year on Saturday night. The most destructive explosion, apparently, occurred in Łomianki, about five kilometers north of Warsaw, where a residential building which housed a pyrotechnics company was burned to the ground, killing one woman. The police stated that they had not concluded that the cause of the explosion was due to fireworks. “We will check all the circumstances of this incident,” Tomasz Oleszczek of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police told the press in an interview.