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More than 120,000 people watched the fireworks shows in Amsterdam and Rotterdam at midnight to ring in the New Year. Tilburg will attempt to organize a fireworks show on Monday night after cancelling their New Year's event due to wind. In the hours after midnight, there was a brief period of smog caused by exploding fireworks.
The first edition of the European Para Championships (EPC), a combined European championship for Paralympic sports, starts in Rotterdam on Tuesday. Andrew Parsons, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, will officially open the event on Monday evening. Ten different sports, just under half of the total number of Paralympic sports, will take place in Rotterdam. These are archery, badminton, cycling, goalball, judo, taekwondo, shooting, boccia, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair tennis.
Rotterdam was rocked by another two explosions early on Tuesday morning, one at an apartment building and the other at a business premises. That brings the total number of explosions targeting Rotterdam homes and businesses to 60 this year - more than in the entire 2022, a spokesperson for the police confirmed to ANP.
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