At least five people were killed and about 600 others were injured in traditional riotous New Year's Eve revelry involving fireworks and guns across the Philippines, officials said Friday. A five-year-old boy and his mother were killed after being trapped inside the family-owned pyrotechnics store that went up in flames just hours before midnight Thursday in Gingoog city on southern Mindanao island, police said.
The inferno started when the boy's father and uncle tested a firecracker inside the store, setting off a chain reaction, police said. In Zamboanga city also on Mindanao, another two revellers were killed and five others injured when a footbridge collapsed as they converged to watch a pyrotechnics show minutes before midnight, police said. Elsewhere in the Philippines, another 571 people were injured by firecrackers and 26 by stray bullets, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said.
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