Explosive incidents of children throwing firecrackers at sewer manhole covers have occurred in several places in China. (Photo source: Weibo)
With the Chinese New Year approaching, Chinese customs like to celebrate the New Year with firecrackers, but it is also important for children to be safe. Recently, several children in Fujian, China, threw firecrackers into a sewer manhole cover and were unexpectedly blown up several meters high, and many similar acts have occurred elsewhere, and some children have even been tragically killed. Some netizens said, “I hope Parents can take this as a warning.
Comprehensive media reports, from the video can be seen in Changting, Fujian Province, there are three children to throw firecrackers into the well cover, throwing firecrackers as soon as the children threw out quickly backed up, the other two are still waiting in place, and then the cover and floor tiles instantly exploded, the original squatting above the red child directly sprayed flying several meters high, next to another child was also blown to the ground, only the original throwing firecrackers white child pretended to walk away from nothing Only the white kid who threw the firecracker pretended to be fine and walked away.
In addition, similar incidents have been occurring around the world. According to “Cover News”, a mainland netizen said that the incident occurred in a square, when there were many pedestrians, two boys lit the firecrackers in their hands and stuffed them into the manhole cover in the middle of the square; unexpectedly, the next second they saw the manhole cover was blown up into mid-air, and the two children were shaken by the impact of the explosion and fell backwards. fell to the ground.
The newspaper pointed out that in recent years, China due to firecrackers, triggered by methane gas explosion in sewage wells injury incidents are common. Many of the holes under the cover are septic tanks, which can easily cause the fermentation of organic matter and be transformed by microbial decomposition, which in turn generates methane gas, and when it reaches a certain concentration, even a small firecracker can detonate methane gas, requiring more attention.
Land media reported that on the afternoon of January 22, a child threw a firecracker into the sewer outside the Future City neighborhood in Dazhou, Sichuan. When he lit the firecrackers and threw them down, he quickly ran out a few meters before five adjacent manhole covers suddenly exploded and flew up in a series of explosions. The surrounding people in the square were scared to flee.
January 10, mainland Ningxia Yinchuan City, a 10-year-old boy, on the hand just lit firecrackers thrown into the sewers under a manhole cover on the roadside, did not expect the power of the explosion but he blew up to 5 meters away, died on the spot.
In this regard, netizens have said after watching the “accident is very painful, the lesson is very heavy”, “this is the methane gas caused by the explosion,” “parental responsibility”, ” I hope parents can be cautioned”, some netizens said, “I can only blame why let children play firecrackers”.
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