A teenager was injured by a firecracker explosion in the Orsha district

January 10, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A minor was injured in the Orsha district from a firecracker explosion, the Vitebsk Regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed a BELTA correspondent. The accident occurred with a 14-year-old resident of Smolensk, who came to his relatives in the village of Sofievka for the Christmas holidays. The teenager lit a firecracker, which exploded in his hands. As a result, the boy received a thermal burn of the face of degree 1-2 on an area of 2%. He is currently hospitalized in a local hospital. During the New Year holidays in the Vitebsk region, this is already the fourth case of injury when using pyrotechnics, the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted. In total, since the beginning of the year as of January 10, 55 fires have occurred in the region (two more cases compared to the same period in 2010), including 23 over the past weekend. 9 people died in fires (5 fewer, respectively), including two from January 7 to 10. The cause of the accidents was smoking while intoxicated and violation of the rules for operating stove heating. -0-