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At least 23 people were injured after a Ferris wheel at Highfield Festival near the eastern German city of Leipzig caught fire, police said on Sunday, a day after the accident occurred. A specialist investigator came to the site on Sunday morning and began a probe into what caused the accident, a police spokeswoman said. Initially, one of the gondolas of the Ferris wheel caught fire at around 9 pm (1900 GMT). The fire then spread to the second gondola. Both were completely destroyed by the fire, according to a dpa reporter at the scene. The policewoman said the main question was how the accide…

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