RA Health Minister Arsen Torosyan wrote in his FB account:

“I do not want to spoil the holiday of all of us, but I have to spread this information and call again to completely abandon the explosives.

Over the past two days, 52 people have suffered from explosives / fireworks, including:

• 8 (15%) children (7-14 years), 7 (13%) adolescents (15-17 years) and 37 (72%) adults (18 years and older);
• In 49 cases, the victims received different types of wrist and buttock injuries.

PS In the picture is an X-ray image of a ten-year-old child’s distal phalanx, which was taken on New Year’s Eve.

PS the Draft Laws on Sale of Explosives and Restrictions on Fireworks is already in circulation.”