Indore district banned the manufacture and sale of carbide guns following numerous injuries during Diwali. These homemade guns, created from gas lighters and PVC pipes, have caused critical eye ...

Indore administration has banned dangerous carbide toy guns after 31 individuals, mostly children, suffered serious eye ...

The Indore district administration has banned carbide toy guns following 31 reported eye injuries during Diwali. Authorities also prohibited making and sharing videos featuring these guns on social ...

Authorities in Indore district in Madhya Pradesh on Friday banned the manufacture and sale of carbide guns after their use in Diwali led to scores of people getting injured, including 31 with critical ...

The call by AIOS, the world's largest professional society of eye specialists comprising over 28,000 ophthalmologists, came ...

Indore district administration bans carbide guns and social media videos following serious injuries to children during Diwali ...

Two people were arrested and 59 carbide guns were seized in Bhopal on Oct 24. This comes after several children suffered eye ...

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP, Zone 2) of Bhopal, Vivek Singh, said the suspects were making the dangerous guns at home, and police have also seized pipes and carbide material. A case has been ...

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Following Diwali celebrations, nearly 300 people in Madhya Pradesh suffered severe eye injuries caused by carbide pipe guns.

Over 180 people, including children, were hospitalised in Bhopal during Diwali due to injuries from misused calcium carbide guns, originally designed as monkey repellents.

These carbide guns or ‘desi firecracker guns’ are made using plastic or tin pipes, and are filled with gunpowder, calcium carbide and matchstick heads ...