On the evening of April 29, a caravan and an adjacent construction container caught fire at a caravan site in Bansin (Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). According to police, the 67-year-old owner had replaced the gas cylinder of the heating system shortly before the fire. The man suffered minor burns and was taken to hospital together with his 65-year-old wife.
The fire was quickly extinguished by firefighters. Damage is estimated at a five-figure sum; one source puts it at at least 15,000 euros. The preliminary cause is a technical defect in the heating equipment. One source gives the date as April 21, others as April 29.