For one more year there were no shortage of injuries from firecrackers and sparklers; as a result of which two minor children from Agistri and Symi suffered amputation of their fingers, while another injured person from Leonidio is intubated in the ICU.

In Leonidio, four young people were injured shortly after the Resurrection in their attempt to set off sparklers. As broadcast on SKAI’s main news bulletin one of the injured was taken to “Gennimatas” hospital in a serious condition and is being intubated in the Intensive Care Unit.

At the same time, in particular the two children from Symi and Agistri are hospitalized in serious condition who were also injured by firecrackers. In Symi a 13-year-old boy was seriously injured resulting in the partial amputation of four fingers on his right hand and facial injuries. Shortly after the Resurrection, a boy was admitted to the “Agia Sophia” Children’s Hospital 14 years old from Agistri. The child suffered multiple burns from a firecracker and four fingers of his left hand were also amputated, while his right hand was also injured.

“I know that a child has been hit and was taken by helicopter to Athens. The child is hospitalized at the Children’s Hagia Sophia where he will undergo a series of operations”, the mayor of Symi, Lefteris Papakalodoukas

“He has a problem with his fingers, on his left hand. At a distance of 200 meters from the church with the barrels and these the problem arose” stated the Mayor of Agistrio Ioannis Athanasiou.

In Rhodes, a seven-year-old girl suffered serious burns from a sparkler that exploded next to her and was taken to hospital. An eyewitness speaks exclusively to SKAI and describes how the shocking incident happened.

“So there was an explosion with a flame that moved towards the people who were sitting around watching and there was panic for a few seconds because it went through some people. I learned there was also an injury to a small child, a girl around six years old”

The girl is being treated with burns at the Rhodes hospital.

An eight-year-old boy originally from Albania was also injured by a firecracker in Pylos. The minor was found with a friend outside the church of Panagia Myrtidiotissa, where they found a firecracker, which seemed not to have exploded. He tried to light it, but it exploded in his hand, seriously injuring his thumb. He was initially transferred to the Pylos Health Center and from there by ambulance to the Kalamata Hospital. However, it was deemed necessary to transfer him to a Hospital in Athens and thus, with the care of his family, he was transferred to a Children’s Hospital in Athens.