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Events on Saturday 13 May 2000 1
2000Enschede fireworks disasterAn explosion at a fireworks depot destroys a Dutch neighbourhoodOn 13 May 2000 a fire at the S.E. Fireworks storage depot in a residential district of Enschede, in the eastern Netherlands, set off a chain of massive explosions. Twenty-three people were killed, among them four firefighters, about a thousand were injured, and the Roombeek district was flattened. The disaster led to far stricter Dutch rules on fireworks storage.