{"id":121422,"date":"2023-11-07T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121422"},"modified":"2023-11-07T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:29:00","slug":"bloke-loses-eye-when-firework-explodes-in-face-in-horror-bonfire-night-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/bloke-loses-eye-when-firework-explodes-in-face-in-horror-bonfire-night-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloke loses eye when firework explodes in face in horror Bonfire Night tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A young bloke has suffered life-changing injuries after a firework exploded in his face during a family Bonfire Night display. <\/p>\n

    Connor McKenna-West and his fiance Carl had organised a firework show for 25 close family and friends at their home in Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. Tragedy struck when 25-year-old Connor tried to light the fuse of a rocket, which instead of soaring into the sky, exploded in his face. <\/p>\n

    He was rushed to James Cook University Hospital with a shattered right eye and shrapnel wounds to his face.<\/p>\n

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    Despite a four-hour surgery, doctors were unable to save Connor's right eye, which had been pierced by shrapnel from the rocket. The couple, who bought the fireworks from a "legitimate retailer", are now worried that they may have been faulty.<\/p>\n

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    He said: "They weren't under the counter fireworks, they were legitimate fireworks, but I've went to light the rocket off and I don't even know whether the fuse lit or not, but the rocket has literally blown up in my face."<\/p>\n

    "It hadn't even taken off to go into the air, it's instantly exploded in my face. I've had a big piece of the rocket gone through the right hand side of my eyelid and its gone all the way through, shattered my eyeball and I had to have the eye removed in surgery."<\/p>\n

    Connor said doctors showed him images of how his eye looked before they operated on him and said the eyeball looked like "a deflated football".<\/p>\n

    They explained to him that if the shrapnel had been lodged any further into his head it could have caused permanent brain damage, but he is determined to remain positive.<\/p>\n

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