Playing with fire - Gunpowder fruit battle causes casualties

At least 40 participants were injured by gunpowder fruit in the traditional Hingot war near the Indian city of Indore. The traditional battle takes place every year the day after Diwali, the festival of lights, in the Gautampura area, about 59 km (36 miles) from Indore. The foolhardy competitors throw burning Hingots - a hollow fruit shell filled with gunpowder and sealed with soil resembling a fireball – at each other. The shells accelerate through the air thanks to their explosive contents. Hingots grow on the Hingoriya tree and are 15 to 20 cm long (six to eight inches), with a coconut-like shape. The war saw the Turra and Kalangi groups take on each other near the Devnarayan temple. The participants brought makeshift shields while spectators watched on from behind a security fence.