...appeared to be a firecracker
Sure.
Look at the pictures. His leg is gone below the ankle. IED...probably moozlum. Just sayin’...
When I was young and dumb, we used to hold firecrakers in our fingers and let them blow. (The trick was to not hold too tightly. Didn’t sting as much that way.)
Even "illegal" firecrackers.
This sounds like a land mine.
“Appeared to be a firecracker”
Yeh like that only different. :-)
Read a story in a British Newspaper Website that a little Girl in Chicago had one hand blown off and lost the fingers on her other hand playing with Illegal Fireworks.
Sounds like something an M-80 could do. I think the kid was five. How could she light it? Where were the Parents?
Of course, other stories there included a Kid dying after falling out the Window at a NYC Public Housing Building and a Father who accidentally killed his child with a Handgun he was cleaning, or something.
Sad, but I’ve heard stories like that all my Life.