FIREWORK DEATH
Boy, 17, dies after fireworks were launched down street in Bonfire Night tragedy
A 17-year-old lad has died after yobs were seen "hurling" fireworks down a street.
The teenager was found injured in a back garden in Halifax, West Yorkshire, by cops on Saturday night.
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He was rushed to hospital but medics were unable to save him and he tragically died of his injuries.
The teenager died after reportedly climbing over a fence as he fled police.
He then crashed through a greenhouse that fatally cut him.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed they had been dealing with a fireworks incident in the same street before the boy died.
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Locals alerted cops after around 80 youngsters began firing rockets along a street as cars drove by on Bonfire Night.
When officers arrived it is thought that the group scattered.
Shocked locals called for tighter laws to restrict the sale of fireworks after pictures emerged of riot cops being pelted with rockets in Leeds.
John Mcqueeney told The Sun: “They need to be banned for public use, events only with a license. Very sad news.”
'VERY SCARY'
Residents of Vickerman Street said the teenager died after he sliced his chest open on the shattered glass from a greenhouse.
The tragic teen was amongst a group of around 50 firework throwing yobs, who had been pelting police with the pyrotechnics.
Sadaqat Hussain, 37, said: ”These boys were not from this area, and where causing a nuisance.
“They were throwing all kinds of fireworks from about 6.45pm onwards. It was scaring many people on the street and the police were called.
“Two police vans turned up and about 20 officers in riot gear and with riot shields turned up.
“The gang of lads then started throwing the fireworks at the police officers and the police vans. It was very scary and like it was pure chaos.”
It was scaring many people on the street and the police were called.
Sadaqat Hussain
At some point the police attempted to disperse the yobs.
Mr Hussain said: ”I didn’t see it, but we know that one of the group ran away into a garden and after claiming a wooden fence landed on a greenhouse.
“He has then cut his chest on the broken glass and has bled to death.
“Two ambulances turned up, but there was nothing they could do for him. He had passed away.”
Another resident Waqas Mohammed, 53, said:”It is very shocking and very sad. The boys who were throwing the fireworks were not from this street.
“They were here to cause trouble and maybe try and cause a confrontation with police.
“My neighbour was out and had not had her lights on. She was terrified the lads might put a firework through her letterbox, and asked her teenage son, who was at a party, to come home and look after he her house.
“Police did not let him through at first because they didn’t believe he lived on the street, but he was let through.”
The terraced street is littered with spent firework casings and fireworks continued to be let off in neighbouring streets tonight.
Another local said: ”I don’t know why this street was picked by this group of lads. It must have been organised for so many to turn up. They were not from around here.”
A spokesman for the force said: "Police were called by the ambulance service just before 8.15pm on Saturday, November 5, following reports of an injured male in the garden of a property in Vickerman Street, Halifax.
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";A 17-year-old male was taken to hospital where he died.
"Scene is open and force has referred itself to the IOPC as police had been called to the street beforehand due to fireworks being set off."
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