More than 30 animals, including apes, monkeys, bats and birds were killed in the blaze, authorities said.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.BERLIN -- A fire at a zoo in western Germany in the first minutes of 2020 killed more than 30, including apes, monkeys, bats and birds, authorities said. Police said the fire may have been caused by sky lanterns launched to celebrate the new year.
“People reported seeing those sky lanterns flying at low altitude near the zoo and then it started burning,” Hoppmann said.The zoo near the Dutch border said that the entire ape house burned down and more than 30, including five orangutans, two gorillas, a chimpanzee and several monkeys, as well as fruit bats and birds, were killed.
“It's close to a miracle that Bally, a 40-year-old female chimpanzee, and Limbo, a younger male, survived this inferno,” Dressen said, adding that many animal handlers were in shock at the devastation. Criminal police officer Hoppmann said that the use of sky lanterns is illegal in Krefeld and most other parts of Germany and asked that the people who launched them or people who witnessed anything should come forward to police.
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