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[ad_1] Reuters  —  At least nine people, including a 10-year-old boy, suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the force said. “Very many people got stuck as they were entering in large numbers to see fireworks. In doing so, many people suffocated to death. So far nine people are confirmed dead,” the police statement read. People had been celebrating the New Year at the mall which is on a highway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport. [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/world-news/nine-suffocate-to-death-in-uganda-new-years-firework-crush-cnn/?feed_id=237499&_unique_id=65a3f85594332

[ad_1] Millions of Americans woke up the morning after Independence Day to air quality advisories across the U.S. Amid ongoing concern about smoke from  wildfires burning in Canada , many were left wondering: How do fireworks affect air quality? The number of Independence Day pyrotechnic displays in a typical year increase concentrations of fine particulate matter up to 42%,  according to a 2015 analysis  of air quality data from 1999-2013.   Hourly concentrations during the evening of July 4 and morning of July 5 in the study were higher than two days before and two days after, researchers noted. But 2023 is anything but typical, according to Rick Knabb , The Weather Channel's hurricane expert.  "The usual increase in airborne particulates ... is combining this year with the higher baseline of poor air quality from the wildfire smoke," he said, making for "even worse air quality."  Residents in Seattle woke up t...