Children among victims suffer eye damage and facial burns as illegal firecrackers cause havoc

xBhopal: More than 60 persons, most of them children aged between 8 and 14, were hospitalised in Bhopal due to injuries sustained after using dangerous calcium carbide guns on Diwali, an official said on Thursday. Though there is no threat to their lives, some of the injured persons have lost their eyesight, while a few have suffered facial burns, he said. Bhopal's Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) Manish Sharma told PTI Videos, Carbide pipe guns are very dangerous. The 60 people injured by the use of these guns are still being treated in hospitals in the state capital. All are safe. Five persons are being treated at Seva Sadan Hospital, while others are admitted to Hamidia Hospital, JP Hospi

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