Honduras: ten dead in eleven days after explosion in a rocket

The explosion in an artisanal rocketry recorded on October 26 in San José de Copán, in western Hondurasleft 10 dead, the last of them this Saturday at the Hospital Escuela, in Tegucigalpareported a source from the institution.

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The tenth deceased, who was in an intensive care room, was identified as Luis Alonso Villanueva53, added the informant.

The day of the explosion in the rocketry, which operated in a cellar of a house in the community of Vivistorio, jurisdiction of San José de Copán, two people died, who were part of the employees of the business, while another eight were seriously injured. burns, for which some were taken to a medical center in Santa Rosa de Copan and others to the Hospital Escuela in the capital.

The first two fatalities were identified as José Renán Umaña and Yester Baide. Several of the deceased were members of the same family.

On October 28, Orlin Adalid Álvarez, 16, died at the Santa Rosa de Copán public hospital.

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The other seven people died hospitalized during the course of this week in the hospitals of Santa Rosa de Copan and Tegucigalpa.

The strong explosion of the rocketry, whose causes are unknown until now, totally destroyed the house where it worked, according to local media reports.

The tragic event is added to other similar ones that have been recorded in the last 20 years in the north and west of Honduraswhich left several dead and injured.

Every year, when the Christmas and New Year holidays, In Honduras, sales of rockets, firecrackers and other gunpowder-based fireworks proliferate.

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Every year, in addition, many children, including adults, suffer mutilations in their hands or serious burns from the explosion of rockets and mortars at the time they were handling them.

To avoid this type of accident, some municipalities prohibit the sale of fireworks, to which many merchants respond by installing their sales on the side of roads and highways, or they do so clandestinely.

Source: Elcomercio

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