A colourful Christmas carols event turned to chaos in Sydney's north overnight after fireworks misfired and launched into the crowd, injuring three children. 9News
Elias Carrera, 11, was sitting in the front row when the set of roman candles misfired and launched balls of fire into the crowd at Christmas Carols at Allambie Heights about 9.30pm on Sunday.
In a post on Facebook, Elias' mum Emma said her boy "was out of surgery and recovering" and "has a large open crater in his chest that has damaged the muscle and his spleen". "There were lots of kids who were stressed and crying and traumatised," Helen O'Shea, another witness, said. Witness Greg Nuan said one of the parents who were at the event was a firefighter and helped provide first aid at the scene."I grabbed them and just ran," Walker said.
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