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A 32-year-old man was killed after accepting a dare by his friends to sit on a box of lit fireworks in Bengaluru, India.
An Indian publication, The Hindu, reported that the man died after he accepting a challenge to sit on a container which had a box full of firecrackers in it to win an auto rickshaw that was placed as a bet.
The publication said the horrific incident was captured on a neighbour’s CCTV camera on Friday.
It is believed that one of his friends offered the deceased his new auto rickshaw if he sat on the box full of lit fireworks.
Speaking to the publication, Deputy Commissioner of Police Lokesh Bharamappa Jagalsar, said the deceased and his friends were drunk when the incident happened.
“The crackers burst and the man who suffered multiple injuries, fell on the ground. Neighbours rushed to his help and shifted him to Victoria hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday,” Jagalsar was quoted saying.
In another incident, a 65-year-old Indian man was killed by three men after he objected to people bursting firecrackers outside his home in Faridabad.
A local publication, Press Trust of India, said a complaint filed by the victim’s son, indicated that the confrontation began on Thursday evening when three individuals started setting off fireworks in front of the family’s residence.
When the father expressed his discomfort with what the men were doing, the exchange escalated into a heated argument but the son managed to calm the situation.
However, around 1am, the three suspects reportedly returned and resumed bursting crackers outside the house and the old an confronted them again, he was allegedly assaulted by the group.
The publication said his family tried to intervene but they were also assaulted.
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