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The numbers of victims and injured with gunpowder in the department of Tolima increase in an accelerated way when there are still a few days until 2020 comes to an end. According to figures from the Tolima Health Secretariat the number of people burned with gunpowder reached 38 while the victims rose to 4 with the recent death of Guillermo Andrés Castellanos Castillo, who had been affected in the explosion of the dustworks in the municipality of Líbano on December 17.
Castellanos, 35, died while receiving care at the Simón Bolívar hospital in Bogotá, where he was hospitalized along with 10 others affected by that explosion. The day of the emergency, young Óscar Danilo Salgado, 14 years old; Jhon Janer Martínez, 23, and Manuel Soler, 63, owner of the powder shop.
Another of the Municipalities with the most gunpowder burns this December season is Ibagué, which reported 10 affected, followed by Mariquita, Melgar, Anzoátegui and Chaparral. Of the total affected, 34 cases are men and 4 women, of which 13 correspond to minors who have resulted in first, second and third degree burns due to the use of flyers, fuses, thunder, rockets and whistles.
Most suffer burns to their hands and neck, but one of the serious cases occurred in the municipality of Anzoátegui where an adult suffered injuries to his genital organs from the explosion of a bag with wicks.
Santiago Barreto, Secretary General of the Tolima governorate, stated that The figures are worrying and he asked parents for greater control of their children so that they do not use gunpowder in the farewell of the year this December 31 for “above all, unity, life and health must prevail.”
“We invite the citizens of Tolima to reflect on the dangers to which they expose their families with the burning of gunpowder,” said the official, adding that “we can be a department that celebrates the festivities without putting children and pets at risk. “.
FABIO ARENAS
HUILA
