Fireworks can light up the sky, but sometimes they create a different kind of blaze.
An incident in Selangor has raised eyebrows, involving a fireworks stall going up in flames.
Is it true that a canopy used for selling firecrackers in Sabak Bernam caught fire and injured several people recently?
VERDICT:
TRUE
Four people were injured, one seriously, when a canopy used for selling firecrackers caught fire in Kampung Batu 9, Pekan Sabak Bernam, near here early today.
Selangor Fire and Rescue Department Assistant Director (Operations) Ahmad Mukhlis Mokhtar said a team was sent to the scene after receiving a distress call at 1.08am.
On arrival, he said, the team found the fire at the 40-square-foot canopy already extinguished.
"The injured were four local men in their 20s, one of whom was seriously injured on both legs and right hand. The others were only slightly injured. All the victims were sent to a hospital for further action," he said in a statement on Wednesday (April 2).
Meanwhile, Sabak Bernam OCPD Supt Md Yusof Ahmad said a permit had been issued to the vendor selling the firecrackers and fireworks at the canopy.
He added in a statement that the four victims injured in the incident were the workers and they were sent to Tengku Ampuan Jemaah Hospital in Sabak Bernam.
The case is investigated under Section 285 of the Penal Code, he said and urged the public with information regarding the incident to contact the Sabak Bernam District Police Headquarters Operations Room at 03-32245963.
