Offenbach.

A two-year-old child fell from the fourth floor of a house in Offenbach and was killed.

The child fell out of the window on Monday evening and died a few hours later in a clinic, the police said on Tuesday morning.

The police assume a tragic accident.

No further background was initially known.

Steinau an der Straße.

An unknown perpetrator in Steinau an der Strasse (Main-Kinzig-Kreis) attacked the employee of a shop with pepper spray and stole the daily income. The 58-year-old woman was on Monday evening with the daily income in a so-called money bomb, a kind of cassette for transporting cash, on the way to the bank when the man attacked her, the police said on Tuesday morning. The perpetrator captured a low four-digit amount. The woman was slightly injured in the attack and suffered eye irritation.

Frankfurt.

A truck in Frankfurt lost hundreds of liters of apple syrup, causing several accidents. Several motorcycle, moped and bicycle riders in the city area slipped on the sticky mass on Monday morning and fell, as a fire department spokesman said. The truck had a leak and lost the fluid over a distance of about five kilometers. In the meantime, the truck has come to a standstill, the spokesman said in the morning. The fire department is now trying to close the leak. According to the spokesman, the traces of syrup are removed from the road with water.

Großkrotzenburg / Wiesbaden

. A fire in a storage area at the lock in Großkrotzenburg slowed down several ships on the Main. Stored tree cuttings caught fire on Monday over a length of 80 meters, said the police in Wiesbaden. The heavy smoke had obstructed the view of the Main and the river was therefore temporarily closed to shipping. After the fire was extinguished, the ships - three were waiting for the lock at the time - were able to continue their voyage. The cause of the fire was initially unclear. According to the police, people or buildings were not affected by the fire.

Lauterbach.

Irritant gas was sprayed on Monday in a school in Lauterbach. 31 students were injured as a result, said a police spokesman. Nobody was seriously injured, but some had to be hospitalized for further examination. According to the Vogelsbergkreis, the emergency call was received by the control center at noon. Rescue workers would have had to treat those affected for respiratory and eye irritation. "Several ambulances, two ambulance vehicles, the organizational head of the ambulance service and a senior emergency doctor were on site," said a district spokesman. Five people came to a clinic. How the incident came about had not yet been conclusively clarified. According to the police spokesman, the investigation is ongoing and there are already several clues.

Eschborn.

In Eschborn, a car driver mistook the brake pedal for the accelerator pedal when parking, causing a serious accident. An 83-year-old woman was run over and trapped between the car and a stone wall, the police said on Monday. Initial findings indicate that the elderly woman is a family member of the 84-year-old driver. She got out of the man's car to put him in a parking lot. The woman was seriously injured and taken to a hospital. Currently she is not in mortal danger, it said. In addition to the stone wall, the car, a carport and a scooter were damaged. The police did not initially quantify the amount of damage. On the orders of the public prosecutor's office, the police confiscated the car.