Very young fireworks victim (11) must miss an eye and hand: ‘Worst thing that can happen to you’

An 11-year-old boy is missing a hand and an eye after a violent fireworks incident. Every year, plastic surgeon Emma Paes of UMC Utrecht sees the consequences when things go wrong with fireworks during the turn of the year. But you never get used to it. “I see the parents and think: what kind of pain must they feel?”