Two killed by fireworks and church gutted in New Year’s Eve chaos

Groups of residents from neighboring streets clash using fireworks in the Transvaal district in The Hague on New Year’s Eve (Picture: Getty Images Europe)

Two people were killed by fireworks, police faced ‘unprecedented’ violence and a church was gutted by fire in a chaotic New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands.

A 17-year-old boy from Nijmegen and a 38-year-old man from Aalsmeer died in separate fireworks incidents, while three other people were left seriously injured.

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