A rogue mortar launched from a malfunctioning salvo of fireworks injured 11 spectators in Vienna on Wednesday night, fire officials said, the worst in a series of incidents in Fairfax County all seen by the same company.
Seven of the spectators near Vienna Elementary School were hospitalized, two of them with potentially life-threatening injuries, following what appears to have been a failure within one of the fireworks boxes during the finale at 9:45 p.m.
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