Frohes Neues Jahr!
While those lovable French set cars alight, the Germans take an altogether more sedate approach to welcoming in the new year. I have it on good authority that they like nothing more than throwing fireworks at each other in the street. Consequently, news that there has only been one death in Germany seems like a stroke of good fortune; except to the victim's family, that is.
In Austria there were also several incidents, including one in which a 23-year-old man was killed returning to a firework that did not detonate.
Well clearly it did detonate, Auntie Beeb, otherwise it wouldn't have killed him. It just detonated late, and unexpectedly. (pipe)
The droid's report could be better rephrased: …a 23-year-old man was killed after returning to a firework that had not detonated.