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Firework injuries and car accidents prevail in Bulgaria's New Year's Eve celebrations

Thu, Jan 01 2009 17:41 CET bySvetlana Guineva 357 Views

An eye injury from a firework, a heavy car accident near Ruski Pametnik in Sofia and a few alcohol-related incidents were among the registered cases at the Pirogov emergency hospital in the capital during Bulgaria's New Year's celebrations, Bulgarian news agency BTA said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily on January 1 2009.
 
One patient sustaining an eye injury from a firework was transported from the village of Loboush, Kovachevtsi municipality. Another seven patients were treated for minor beating-inflicted wounds and later discharged from the hospital.

After a car accident near Ruski Pametnik in Sofia, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to Pirogov with a brain concussion and fractured pelvis. Local news agencies reported her condition to be life threatening.

Over the December 31 2008 to January 1 2009 period, four minors were treated for severe state of drunkenness and later discharged.

A celebration gone wrong scenario unfolded in the village of Stoudena, near Pernik, where a fire in a villa, caused by the explosion of a gas barbeque, cost the life of a 20-year-old man; three more people were left with various degrees of burns, Focus news said.

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