Three foreigners and a Vietnamese died when fireworks went off accidentally at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi Wednesday, the police said Thursday, blaming it on careless transport.
They said the victims were German men Tomak Siegfied, 56, and Schinella Karl Heinz, 55, and Singaporean woman Seah Li Sa, 38, but did not release any further information.
The Vietnamese victim, whose given name is Hoai, was an official in the Ministry of National Defense’s Z121 Company, the police added.
Two other Vietnamese and a German who were injured in the blast are being treated in hospital.
The blast happened when two containers of fireworks stored in the stadium for a display Sunday for Hanoi’s 1,000th birthday celebrations went off.
Nguyen Duc Nhanh, director of the Hanoi Police, said the “unfortunate accident” will not affect Sunday’s event.
He said it was caused by “carelessness during transportation” of the two containers of fireworks by the local International Investment Trade and Service Company, or Interserco.
AFP quoted a spokesman from the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin as saying the two dead Germans belonged to a group of 15 Germans working for a Singaporean company.
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