3 citizens of Littoral region were hospitalized with severe traumas after attempts to let New Year`s fireworks off. As press-service of regional Interior Affairs administration informed, exploded pyrotechnics was produced in China.
Citizen of Kamen-Rybolov severely burnt the leg while letting the petard off, citizen of Mikhailovsky district was torn off the fingers on right hand and citizen of Vladivostok got severe burns and serious craniocerebral trauma.
Several hundreds of people addressed to regional hospitals with injuries from pyrotechnics. The majority of injured are teenagers. In most cases they bought pyrotechnics from Chinese tradesmen or strangers on streets.
By words of representatives of regional Interior Affairs administration, fireworks caused several fires in Vladivostok and Partizansk towns. Fires were extinguished fast, and persons, who were letting the fireworks off, retreated hastily in all cases. Police started the search.
It was informed earlier that the most probable cause of fire in near-Moscow psychoneurologic dispensary was an explosion of a petard. As a result of fire 7 people died, 12 were injured.
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