Compared to last year, cases of revelry-related injuries are higher by five-percent in 2014 as the latest count shot up to 962 on Saturday, a health official said.
Health officials renewed its appeal to the public to use alternative methods of noise-making for the Christmas and New Year revelry as it recorded a total of 21 cases of fireworks-related injuries as of Tuesday morning.
A seven-year-old child who has been inside the surgical intensive care unit of a Quezon City hospital after being hit in the head by a stray bullet during the New Year revelry survived two cardiac arrests early Wednesday, her attending physician said.
Sydney will Monday kick off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013 from Dubai to Paris and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.
A drunken man was accidentally killed when he was sideswept by a passing train in Tagkawayan, Quezon early dawn Saturday, police said.
