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Czech man arrested in Croatia after explosion kills his 9-year-old child
A Czech man has been detained in Croatia for allegedly allowing his 9-year-old child to take an explosive device from a military zone which later killed the child, Croatian police said on Friday.
The 46-year-old man on Wednesday entered a restricted military training ground in central Croatia without authorization where he allowed his child to pick up the explosive device and bring it back to the family car, said a police statement.
When the car later broke down along the way, the child took out the explosive device which then exploded, killing the child and wounding three people, the statement added. It was not immediately clear what kind of device the child had found.
Police did not reveal the sex of the child, though some reports said it was a boy.
The father is facing charges of "grave criminal acts against public safety" in connection with "endangering lives and property by a dangerous act or device," police said.
Croatia, with its Adriatic Sea coastline, is a favorite tourist destination that is packed with visitors from the Czech Republic and other European countries during the summer season. The explosion happened on Thursday in an area close to the central coastal town of Zadar.

Much of New Zealand's far north is without power after a transmission tower fell overWhilst it's true infrastructure in a great many places across the planet has been neglected in recent years, particularly in the West, there's also evidence that some of these blackouts - as well as explosions, fires, and system failures - which appear to be on the rise in recent years, are also due to sabotage; it remains to be seen whether we will find out which is applicable in these most recent incidents.
Much of the northernmost part of New Zealand is without power after a transmission tower toppled over in a rural area on Thursday, with no indication when power will be fully restored to the area.
The 220-kV tower fell "unexpectedly" in a field, a spokesperson for the national grid operator, Transpower, said in a statement. It was not clear why the tower fell over.The tower carried two separate high-capacity circuits that supplied most of the power to the remote Northland region, which has a population of 195,000. Officials suggested 180,000 people were without power, Radio New Zealand reported.© Taran Marsh-Goudie via APA fallen power pylon lies in a farm paddock near Kumeu north of Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, June 20, 204. Much of the northernmost part of New Zealand is without power after a transmission tower toppled over in a rural area on Thursday, with no firm indication for when it will be restored.
Power had been restored to some through the use of a lower-capacity network, but most of the region's homes and businesses — more than 70,000 — were still without electricity hours after the outage, the two power companies servicing Northland told The Associated Press.
The region's emergency management agency advised residents to conserve water and New Zealand police urged people not to travel by road unless necessary.
The outage occurred just over a year after New Zealand's ageing power grid experienced its worst-ever damage during a deadly cyclone in February 2023, which battered Northland, cutting power to the region and devastating farmland. Local politicians in the area have long sought more government funding for its crumbling infrastructure.
Comment: One is reminded of the strange incident of Oct 2023, also in Dagestan, whereby 'external enemies' were accused of stoking up locals to protest an arriving Israeli passenger plane.
It's likely that the same 'external enemies' at work that day, were also behind today's attack. And reason suggests that it's the same groups responsible for the Crocus mall massacre, which an investigation, as well as various officials, later revealed to be Ukraine, the US, and UK.
Note also that just a week or so ago there was another incident involving terrorists on Russian territory: Russian forces storm detention centre to rescue staff held hostage, inmates were members of IS terror cells
Taken together, it seems the desperate and diabolical establishment in the West is intent on significantly escalating its hybrid war, as well as its overt provocations. Which is saying something, because sabotage on Russian soil has been an almost weekly occurrence these past few years.
However, by their warped logic it makes sense they'd feel compelled to do so, because their defeat in Ukraine is looming. More so after they, predictably, rejected Russia's generous peace proposal. And which has left Moscow with little option to but to expedite the completion of its SMO.
Below is some more footage from the scene, however note the accounts anti-Russia/anti-multipolar world bias: