PANAJI: It was a holiday-turned-nightmare for a group of youth who travelled to Goa from Bengaluru for a fun weekend. The last thing they imagined was having one of their friends, a 20-year-old woman, put in a dire situation with 28.5% burns. She is currently undergoing treatment in the department of plastic surgery and burns at the GMC. Visibly shaken, her friends told TOI that the nine of them arrived in Goa for the weekend and were due to return on Sunday night. “Four of us came out for dinner to the club. The rest stayed at the hotel. We had dinner and were supposed to leave after the belly dance performance, but the fire took place during the performance,” the youth told TOI . “The fire broke out because of the sparklers during the performance. Sparks hit the ceiling and fl

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