Four children and the same number of adults ended up in Greek hospitals with injuries sustained from explosions of fireworks and firecrackers on festive Saturdays and Sundays.
An eight-year-old boy from Pylos suffered a serious hand injury. He tried to light a firecracker, but it exploded in his hands. The child was initially taken to the Pylos Medical Center, but the injury turned out to be serious and he was transferred first to the Kalamata Hospital and then to the Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital in Athens.
A fourteen-year-old teenager from Agistri was admitted to the Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital shortly after the Resurrection. He received multiple burns from firecrackers, amputation of the fingers of his left hand and an injury to his right. The boy was operated on and is being treated at the plastic surgery department of the hospital. The operation went without complications.
A thirteen-year-old teenager was brought to the same hospital at dawn, he was brought from Symi. The child has a partial amputation of the fingers on his right hand and a face wound from a firecracker. He is hospitalized for plastic surgery and will be operated on in the next few hours.
7-year-old girl, as our publication wrote, firecracker victim in the village of Malona, taken to the Rhodes hospital with burns.
The adults were no more careful. Four victims in Arcadia – they were injured while trying to set off fireworks on the evening of the Resurrection of Christ in Leonidio and taken to the hospital for first aid. Two of them were transferred to Tripoli, as they received severe burns on their hands and chest. The incident took place in the parish of Agios Vasilios Leonidi, writes CNN Greece.
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