The festival of lights turned into a nightmare for kids who were burned while playing with firecrackers during Diwali. The National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli witnessed six burns cases, including two minors from the city and a six-year-old girl from Dhule.

Vachi Agrawal suffered 19 per cent burns on her back when she was celebrating Diwali with her friends at her residence in Dhule. Her father, Brijesh Agrawal, said, “She was holding a pencil firecracker and playing with her friend when she tried to hide it.