A woman has reportedly suffered serious burn injuries after her hoard of deodorant cans ignited and caused a huge explosion in her apartment. 

Residents of a high-rise building in Oberhausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, were jolted awake on Friday night as a deafening noise came from the fifth floor of the block of flats. 

Windows in several rooms were blown out, causing glass splinters to be shot towards a car park 100ft away, damaging several cars. 

On top of this, several other flats inside the building were damaged, as well as a stairwell. 

One mother told German newspaper Bild that the explosion tore a huge hole in her kitchen wall and thrown out insulating material.  

A massive hole was torn in her neighbour’s kitchen

The explosion also tore through part of a plaster wall in the block of flats

Emergency services were called to the building, and firefighters determined that the explosion was caused by the ignition of propellant gas found in deodorant cans. 

They initially believed that a thermal bath had exploded, but quickly figured out that the building had no gas heaters.  

Police and the public prosecutor’s office have not yet determined exactly how or why the gas was ignited.  

They have boarded up the flat with chipboard. 

The woman, known only as Melissa G. due to Germany’s privacy laws, is reportedly responsive but not yet ready for questioning. 

Her boyfriend, known only as Jonathan G. was physically unharmed during the incident. 

Their neighbours painted a picture of a lonesome couple that kept themselves to themselves. 

One fellow tenant said: ‘They are strange loners, didn’t say hello and often seemed absent. There was often drama in the apartment at night.’

Firefighters have since said that despite the extensive damage to the building and neighbouring flats, it is safe for tenants to return to their homes.  

A huge kamikaze drone explosion hit close to Vladimir Putin‘s war command headquarters in Rostov-on-Don in the early hours of the morning. 

Shocking footage shows a giant fireball rising up over the city, which lies near Russian-occupied Ukraine.

The explosion whipped up a savage blaze in the vicinity of the military HQ, which Putin is reported to have visited several times throughout the war. 

Three buildings and several cars were damaged according to an initial assessment by Rostov region governor Vasily Golubev.

The war command bunker is at the HQ of Russia‘s Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don.

It was here in June that slain Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin began his attempted coup against Putin’s regime, later staging a march towards Moscow.

Shocking footage shows a giant fireball rising up over the city, which lies near Russian-occupied Ukraine

The explosion whipped up a savage blaze in the vicinity of the military HQ, which Putin is reported to have visited several times throughout the war

The war command bunker is at the HQ of Russia ‘s Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don

Residents expressed shock at the attack and 20 blocks of flats on Pushkinskaya Street were left without electricity.

A state of emergency was declared in the centre of the city due to the kamikaze drone strike.

Reports said 99 residents were given hot food and offered to leave their homes.

As has become routine, Russian officials claimed a drone targeting in the city centre had been shot down, but it was unclear whether the drone managed to evade air defences.

Another drone came down outside the city.

‘At about 3am an air defence system went off in Rostov-on-Don,’ said Golubev.

‘An unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down. The consequences on the ground are being clarified.’

Later he said: ‘At the site of the UAV crash… an emergency mode was introduced from 9am. 99 people live in these three blocks. Meals will be organised for them.’

Putin used the war command post in Rostov as a backdrop for his New Year message to Russians in 2023, posing with troops.

A block is seen on fire after the strike

The aftermath of the drone strike in Rostov is revealed

A damaged car is seen after the strike

Some seven kamikaze drones in total attacked Russian targets during the night. 

One – allegedly a Ukrainian Beaver drone capable of flying up to 620 miles – hit Ramenskoye near Moscow, close to Zhukovsky international airport.

The Russian authorities claimed they had shot it down, causing damage to a high rise residential building.

The attack triggered the closure of air space in Moscow, causing major flight disruption at the city’s four international airports.

The capital’s mayor Sergey Sobyanin said: ‘Tonight in the Ramenskoye urban district, air defence forces thwarted an attempted drone attack on Moscow.’

The railway station in Bryansk – capital of a region bordering Ukraine – was also damaged by a drone attack.

Several vehicles were in flames today after a van carrying gas cylinders mysteriously exploded in the centre of Milan in northern Italy.

Local police said the van had caught fire, while local reports said that four people had been injured in the subsequent blast.

SkyTG24 broadcast footage from the Milan’s Porta Romana neighbourhood, showing high plumes of black smoke rising between buildings, and firefighters on the scene.

In the aftermath, mobile phone footage from the street showed several cars in flames, as well as what appeared to be a scooter and nearby buildings.

The wreckage of one vehicle appeared to be in the centre of the one-way road.

Several vehicles are in flames in the centre of Milan in northern Italy after an explosion, the SkyTG24 news channel reported on Thursday

The explosion occurred at around 11.30am local time on via Pier Lombardo in the city’s Porta Romana district, 1.75 miles south-east of the city’s centre.

The city is home to around 1.3 million people.

Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the van was likely en-route to the nearby Italian Auxological Institute.

Witnesses reported seeing the van catch fire, before a huge explosion.

The publication said in addition to the van, four other cars – as well as a nearby pharmacy and an apartment building – caught fire.

One person was reported to have suffered smoke inhalation. 

Pictured: Firefighters are seen in Milan working to extinguish cars that caught fire after a large blast rocked the city’s Porta Romana neighborhood on Thursday

Mobile phone footage from the street showed several cars in flames, as well as what appeared to be a scooter and nearby buildings. While the cars were quickly extinguished, smoke continued to billow our of the window of a nearby apartment block (pictured)

Pictured: Snoke is seen rising above the streets of Milan after oxygen canisters exploded today

Pictured: A firefighter is seen dragging a fire hose as emergency responders work to extinguish flames caused by an explosion on Thursday

The explosion occurred at around 11.30am local time on street via Pier Lombardo in the city’s Porta Romana district, south-east of the city’s centre

Ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene, while the carabinieri – the police – cordoned off the area. While the blazing cars were soon extinguished, smoke was continued to billow from the windows of nearby buildings.

A nearby nursery school and one apartment building has been evacuated.

The blast came the morning after a huge Champions League semi final clash between two football clubs based in the city – Inter Milan and AC Milan.

The two clubs share a stadium and an intense, historic rivalry. There is no suggestion that the blast was connected to the match.

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