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Friday, 21 November 2008

Great balls of fire! El Salvador's flaming dangerous festival

3/09/2008 3:35:00 PM.  | Richard Maxton

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Inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador have established what may well be the world's most dangerous festival.

Every year locals from Nejapa gather to hurl fireballs at each other to commemorate the eruption of a huge volcano in 1922, which forced the town to be abandoned.

The festival has been taking place every year for the last decade and consists of groups throwing blazing, palm sized projectiles seemingly at random.

This year's festival predictably saw dozens of revellers hospitalised with severe burns.

Past years have even seen participants killed.

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Wednesday, 03 September 2008

This is possibly the greatest commerative festival ever created. Perfect in concept, and fantastic in execution. The volcano gods will be happy, for which we should all be relieved.

Posted by: Trenton Sanchez, Licancabur

 
 

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