A Chinese lantern, launched by a 60-year-old mother and her two adult daughters ...
KREFELD, Germany - A Chinese lantern, launched by a 60-year-old mother and her two adult daughters in a New Year’s Eve celebration, caused the fire at a German zoo in which dozens of animals were killed, including eight great apes, authorities said.
Police in Krefeld, near the Dutch border, said the three women had turned themselves in on learning of the disaster, in which five orangutans, two gorillas and a chimpanzee were killed, alongside bats and birds. “I’ve seen very many human corpses,” Hoppmann said. “And I was struck by how like humans the bodies of the great apes looked when transformed by the fire.”
“They launched the lanterns with good wishes and had no idea what could happen,” Hoppmann said of the women, who could face charges of causing fire by negligence, punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment or a fine.
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