Four people were injured, one of them seriously, due to the explosions on New Year’s Eve. The four injured, all in the city while no cases have been recorded in the province, are three men and a woman. The most serious is a 37-year-old man who is hospitalized at the Polyclinic and has had two fingers amputated. The prognosis is currently 30 days. The other three injured were less serious: a woman who had a prognosis of 7 days, and two other men with a prognosis of 15 and 20 days. The ordinance prohibiting the use of barrels remained a dead letter. Numerous interventions by the firefighters, who in addition to the fire in the apartment in Milazzo, intervened to put out a pile of wood burning in Gravitelli, a car was also on fire. Other piles had been eliminated well before midnight by the municipal police with other law enforcement agencies near the Case Gialle complex. Around 4 am in Santa Lucia sopra Contesse a road accident occurred, one of the occupants was injured, apparently not seriously. Municipal police officers intervened in this case too.
Carabinieri checks
The Carabinieri of the Messina provincial command, as part of the territorial control services carried out on New Year’s Eve, in addition to the 64 homemade sticks found in Bordonaro in the possession of a minor who was arrested, seized another 42 illegal sticks and reported three people