{"id":305288,"date":"2018-11-08T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305288"},"modified":"2018-11-08T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:55:48","slug":"firecrackers-trigger-accidents-during-diwali-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/firecrackers-trigger-accidents-during-diwali-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Firecrackers trigger accidents during Diwali celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304564 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01-696x402.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01-727x420.jpg 727w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181023-112241__01.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bursting of fire crackers during Diwali celebrations triggered accidents in various parts of India on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 50 people were injured in Hyderabad and outskirts while bursting crackers, an official said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were taken to the Hospital late Wednesday night and in the early hours of Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to doctors, few of them sustained critical injuries in their eyes and rest of the people had minor injuries and were sent home after treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources said, the injured include people belonging to all age groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another incident, firecrackers led to a massive fire in Lucknow\u2019s candle factory in Rajendra Nagar area late on Wednesday night, a fire brigade official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, no loss of life has been reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than half-a-dozen fire brigades were rushed to the spot to douse the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Ludhiana too, fire broke out on Wednesday at 25 locations on Occasion of Diwali.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports said, a total of 37 fire engines were deployed to douse the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind most of the incidents was bursting of crackers, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bursting of fire crackers during Diwali celebrations triggered accidents in various parts of India on Wednesday. At least 50 people were injured in Hyderabad and outskirts while bursting crackers, an official said on Thursday. The injured were taken to the Hospital late Wednesday night and in the early hours of Thursday.\u00a0 According to doctors, few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9587,2426,9588,5493,9589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305299,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305288\/revisions\/305299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}