Over 20 Iraq’s Karbala Province children injured by plastic blasts

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: At least 22 children in southern Iraq‘s holy city of Karbala have been injured over the past 2 days due to their playing with plastic weapons, firing steel balls,” Karbala‘s Healh Director stated on Wednesday. Dr.Alaa Hammoud Budair told IraqiNews.com news agency that his Directorate had warned several times from the seriousness of such type of games that harm children. “The inuries has been serious, most of them in the eyes and head, thing that make children disable for the rest of the lives and demand major operations in several cases,” he said. He said his Directorate had demanded the prevention of merchants to import such games, but the local markets were still full of them and might cause severe harm for children.