Throwing firecrackers, light bulbs and fireworks is a deeply rooted custom in the country. Among the victims is a 12-year-old girl.
A young man died this Saturday and another was injured when they manipulated pyrotechnics, while four people were injured by probable shots in the air during the end of the year celebrations in Puerto Rico.
The 21-year-old deceased was seriously injured when doing use of mortar type pyrotechnics in the central municipality of Caguas, according to a statement from the Puerto Rico Police.
After the incident, he was transferred to the Menonita de Caguas hospital, where the doctor on duty could only certify his death.
Also in Caguas, a 39-year-old man suffered an open wound on his right hand and burns when handling fireworks, for which he received hospital care but his condition is stable.
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Launch firecrackers, light bulbs and fireworks It is a deeply rooted custom in Puerto Rico to say goodbye to the year, when the dangerous practice of firing shots into the air is also a tradition.
This last tradition seems to be behind three incidents in which four people were injured, including one under 12 years old.
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The youngest received a gunshot wound to the left leg while he was observing the fireworks with his mother on the balcony of his residence in an urbanization in the municipality of Carolina, neighboring San Juan.
The condition of the minor, who had to be referred from a Carolina hospital to a more specialized one in Río Piedras, is stable.
Meanwhile, in the Bayamón area, a man and a woman in their 50s and 60s were injured while they said goodbye to the year in a canopy of the urbanization in which they reside.
The man was wounded by a bullet between the thumb and index finger of his right hand, while supposedly the same bullet then grazed the left shoulder of the woman.
The injured were taken to the Regional Hospital of Bayamón, where they were treated and discharged in stable condition.
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A last similar case was registered in the Yabucoa district, where a 22 year old he was injured in the left hand as a result of a stray bullet.
Every year these types of incidents are reported on the island despite the numerous warnings and campaigns by different institutions to put an end to this practice of “throwing bullets into the air”. (I)
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