MARION, Ind. (AP)
— Authorities say two Indiana men have died from injuries suffered in
fireworks accidents over the holiday weekend.
Grant County
Coroner Chris Butche tells WXIN that 41-year-old James Drake died Saturday
night in Marion when he was struck in the face by a fireworks shell while
checking to see why it hadn't detonated.
Butche says Drake
suffered extensive facial trauma and was pronounced dead at Marion General
Hospital.
The Elkhart
County Sheriff's Department says 44-year-old Jose Magallanes was found
dead late Sunday morning in northern Indiana when officers responded to a
report from neighbors who said they heard a loud boom.
Coroner's office
spokesman James Elliott says Magallanes had explosion injuries from a
fireworks incident. The coroner ruled Magallanes' death an accident caused
by blunt force trauma to the head.
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