Firecracker-related incidents kill 2 persons in Cebu

INQUIRER FILES

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two persons died in separate firecracker-related incidents in Cebu during the New Year celebration.

The incidents were recorded in Asturias town where the firework exploded on the victim’s face and in Talisay City where a 10-year-old child was hit by a “Goodbye Philippines” firecracker.

The Central Visayas Police Regional Office recorded a total of 14 firecracker-related injuries, according to Lieutenant Colonel Janette Rafter, spokesperson of Brigadier General Roy Parena, officer-in-charge of the regional police.

Rafter said two stray bullets were also monitored in Central Visayas: one in Tisa, Cebu City, where the victim sustained a minor wound, and another in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, where no one was hit.

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The local police, in coordination with the Regional Philippine National Police Forensic Unit, has launched an investigation to examine the two stray bullets and find where they came from.

Despite these incidents, the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas described the New Year celebration as “generally peaceful.”