Health Ministry records 150 injuries as a result of fireworks and in Baghdad

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  • 1-01-2023, 13:20
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    Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that 150 injuries were recorded as a result of fireworks during the celebration of New Year's Eve in Baghdad.

     The ministry's spokesman, Saif Al-Badr, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the number of initial injuries in Baghdad as a result of fireworks amounted to 150, including no less than 20 eye injuries," stressing that "there have been no deaths so far."  

     He pointed out, "Many of the injured do not come back in the first hours, so the ministry will give, today, complete statistics on the numbers of injuries in the governorates as a result of random shooting and fireworks."

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