Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming has died after a driver deliberately ran down two officers on a routine foot patrol in Nelson in the early hours of New Year’s Day — the first female New Zealand police officer killed in the line of duty.
A 31-year-old man died in hospital after falling from his bicycle and striking a parked vehicle on rue Dépôt in downtown Sherbrooke on New Year’s Eve. Police say the death is not considered criminal.
Berlin police made about 400 arrests as emergency crews were pelted with fireworks; five men died in fireworks accidents across Germany, reviving demands for a ban on private pyrotechnics.
