Several accidents with New Year’s rockets occurred in several parts of the country on Saturday.
In Halmstad, several boys set off fireworks from an apartment. One of the boys was hit and had to go to hospital for burns to his ear. A minor boy is suspected of causing danger to another and causing bodily harm.
Late in the afternoon, a group of boys shot rockets from the roof of a parking garage in Trollhättan at people who were going into a business building. No one is said to have been injured.
The police also had to move out in the municipality of Berg after a person shot rockets at a car. The driver was blinded and drove into the ditch, but escaped unhurt.
In the municipality of Lilla Edet, two incidents with fireworks occurred. On one occasion, it was a multi-family building where fireworks exploded in a stairwell. On the second occasion, it was a car that caught fire after someone threw fireworks under it.
Even in Gislaved and Värnamo, the police had to move out when young people shot rockets around them.