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BHOPAL: “I watched a video on YouTube and urged my abba to get a gun for me,” said eight-year-old Alzain Khan as he lay on a bed in Bhopal’s Hamidia Hospital, his eyes wrapped in bandage.Alzain is among several children admitted to the hospital after suffering eye injuries caused by carbide guns — devices rigged…
BHOPAL: As MP’s “dark Diwali” tragedy unfolds, leaving close to 300 people including children with eye injuries after using “carbide guns” to celebrate Diwali on Monday and Tuesday, hospitals in Bhopal — where the highest number of patients are being treated — and in other districts have reported at least 23 cases with “severe” damage…
Bhopal/Gwalior: Could Madhya Pradesh’s carbide gun-triggered tragedy have been avoided if early action of two alert cops in Gwalior and Bhopal were taken seriously and replicated across the state? On Oct 18 – days before Diwali – a cop in Gwalior, alarmed by the open sale of carbide guns, had on his own lodged an…
The carbide guns sold in Bhopal markets. (R) One of the injured kids undergoing treatment at Hamidiya hospital The carbide guns sold in Bhopal markets. (R) One of the injured kids undergoing treatment at Hamidiya hospital The carbide guns sold in Bhopal markets. (R) One of the injured kids undergoing treatment at Hamidiya hospital The…
BHOPAL: Diwali celebrations turned tragic in Madhya Pradesh when about 300 people, including children , suffered severe to minor eye injuries after they “fired” carbide guns, or agri-cannons, used mainly by farmers to scare away monkeys and birds, on Monday and Tuesday. As many as 30 of them are said to be serious and could…
Representational photo (PTI) NEW DELHI: More than 100 people, most of them children aged between 8 and 14, were hospitalised in Bhopal and neighbouring Vidisha district after using calcium carbide guns during Diwali celebrations, officials said on Thursday. Around 60 children are being treated in government hospitals in the state capital, while 50 others are…
