Nine people were injured Friday evening, August 16, in Collioure (Pyrenees-Orientales) by a rocket fireworks, which landed in the middle of the crowd, was learned Saturday, August 17 from firefighters .
Of these nine wounded, three were hospitalized, including burns. No vital prognosis is engaged, according to firefighters.
According to the first elements, a fireworks rocket would have gone horizontally, from a floating barge, towards the crowd. The pyrotechnic machine would have exploded in the middle of a group of people massed on the beach of the commune, very tourist, south of Perpignan.
According to the daily L'Indépendant, several thousand people attended the fireworks. An investigation should be opened by the gendarmerie services to determine the exact causes and circumstances of this accident.