Enschede

The Enschede fireworks disaster killed 23, destroyed 400 homes and damaged 1,500 buildings.

In May 2000 the city of Enschede, where Twente play, was the scene of a catastrophic disaster after an explosion at a fireworks warehouse.

The other Dutch people in the group agreed that they preferred to read in English, said Ms. Hodge, who lives in the eastern city of Enschede.

For more than two years, home for Curt Bloch was a tiny crawl space below the rafters of a modest brick home in Enschede, a Dutch city near the German border.

"We had it with the old politicians," voter Herman Borcher said in the eastern town of Enschede, welcoming the election outcome.