Crackers injure 19 in Sitapur on Diwali night, nine of them children
All were treated at the district hospital. One child with a serious eye injury was sent to Lucknow; most others went home after first aid.
Nineteen people, nine of them children, were burned or hurt by firecrackers in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district on Diwali night, Dainik Bhaskar reported on 9 November.
The injuries happened between about midnight and 2 a.m., in separate incidents across the district, as people burst crackers outside homes and in their neighbourhoods. The injured, who ranged in age from one to 50, were taken to the district hospital.
Two of the injured were said to be in a serious condition. Doctors sent one child, who had a serious eye injury, to Lucknow for better treatment. The others were given first aid and allowed to go home, according to the report.
Children should light crackers only with an adult watching. Anyone with an eye injury should not rub the eye and should see a doctor at once. In an emergency, dial 112.
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