Explosion

Eight members of the Armed Forces were wounded when a soldier found and accidentally detonated a propellant casing during land-clearing work at the First Field Artillery Battalion in Francisco Morazán; five suffered minor injuries and three sustained more serious wounds.

A gas explosion at a home in San José, Copán, where the family made fireworks, left two adults and two children — ages 3 and 12 — with severe burns requiring hospital care.

A child hospitalized with severe burns from an explosion at an artisanal firecracker factory in Copán has been discharged after 26 days of treatment and multiple surgical procedures, continuing recovery as an outpatient.

A 10-year-old boy became the third confirmed fatality from an explosion Wednesday at an informal fireworks workshop in Nueva Arcadia, Copán, where a woman and an 8-year-old girl also died; a 4-year-old with severe burns was airlifted to Tegucigalpa.

An explosion at a home-based fireworks and powder-products facility in Copán killed two people—a woman and a 4-year-old child—and injured three others with severe burns; authorities said high temperatures and a possible lack of safety measures likely contributed to the blast, though investigations are ongoing.