{"id":2504,"date":"2026-04-06T04:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/2504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:05:21","slug":"falling-tree-kills-3-including-10-month-old-during-easter-egg-hunt-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/2504\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling tree kills 3, including 10-month-old, during Easter egg hunt in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany during an Easter egg hunt, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Around 50 people from a nearby residential facility for new mothers, pregnant women and children were attending the event in a wooded area near the town of Satrupholm at about 11 a.m. when a 100-foot tree fell on the group, police said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Four people were pinned under the tree. A 21-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl were treated by first responders but died at the scene, while the woman&#8217;s 10-month-old daughter died later in the hospital. An 18-year-old woman suffered serious injuries and was brought to the hospital by helicopter. <\/p>\n<p>The facility is part of the state-funded child welfare system and supports pregnant women and new mothers who need help, according to its website. Grief counselors were sent to the scene. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ap26095481852948.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Germany-Easter-Tragedy \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police officers stand next to a fallen tree in a wooded area south-east of Flensburg, Germany, on Sunday, April 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Benjamin Nolte\/dpa via AP<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from the scene published by the Bild news site showed several Easter eggs scattered on the ground and two of the victims covered in white sheets. <\/p>\n<p>The area had been under a high winds warning from the German weather service. <\/p>\n<p>Government officials from the Schleswig-Holstein region, where the facility was located, said they were &#8220;deeply shaken&#8221; by the accident. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the family members of the dead, with the injured, and with everyone who had to experience this terrible occurrence,&#8221; regional Governor Daniel G\u00fcnther, Interior Minister Magdalena Finke, and Youth and Families Minister Aminata Tour\u00e9 said in a joint statement carried by the dpa news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-2504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-easter","9":"tag-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}