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More than 30 people were injured after a Ferris wheel at Highfield Festival near the eastern German city of Leipzig caught fire on Saturday, police said. According to initial findings, all victims suffered from smoke inhalations after two of the wheel’s gondolas caught fire, a police spokeswoman told dpa. The head of operations of the German Red Cross, however, said two people were also seriously injured. The police spokeswoman was initially unable to comment on this information. She did say that four police officers were among the injured. The cause of the fire remained initially unclear on S…

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