More than 20 people injured in Ferris wheel fire in Germany

Police were investigating the cause of the blaze, which started in a gondola (Heiko Rebsch/dpa via AP)

At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas on a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival in Germany, a news agency has reported.

The fire at the site near Leipzig, in the east of the country, started in one gondola and spread to a second on Saturday night, police said.