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29 March 2024

Wedding tragedy: Boy loses hand in fireworks

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A Saudi wedding ended in a tragedy when the groom’s little brother lost his hand while playing with fireworks to celebrate his brother’s marriage.

It was the second wedding in the Gulf kingdom in a week to turn into a disaster after the bride’s father shot the groom’s brother to death to stop him from entering the women’s wedding hall in the northwestern town of Tabuk.

Police said Ibrahim al Hamdi, aged under 10 years, was handling fireworks when one of them exploded in his hand at his brother’s wedding in the southern province of Jazan.

“He was rushed to hospital where doctors decided to amputate his hand from the arm,” a police spokesman said, quoted by Sabq newspaper.

The paper quoted the boy’s father Mohammed Al Hmadi as saying he needed financial help for his son’s treatment at a prosthetic hospital.
 

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