Diwali, the festival of lights was celebrated with gaiety in the city despite the restriction on bursting of fire-crackers.
The night was lit up with fireworks and bursting of firecrackers continued well over midnight. Though the festival was largely peaceful however while there were few incidents of injuries reported on the Diwali night.
A teenage boy was seriously injured as while bursting crackers at Kuluptanga under RIT police station area in Adityapur this morning.
The 15-year-old Rupesh Soy who sustained splinter injuries was rushed to MGM Medical College and Hospital soon after the incident. A resident of the same Kuluptanga locality, Rupesh had a deep cut in his shoulder caused by the glass splinter triggered following bursting of cracker. The victim's relative said that a glass measuring three inches by two inches had pierced in the back of Rupesh. "We rushed the boy to the MGM Medical College and Hospital's emergency ward where a minor surgery was conducted," said Mandal. A doctor who attended the boy said that timely treatment has saved the boy's life, otherwise the major injury caused by the wound might have proved fatal.