Teenager loses eye after firework hits his face at Liverpool display

Ferhan Enes Sahinler was hit by a firework falling from the sky

Ferhan Enes Sahinler was hit in the eye by a firework after attending the Sefton Park firework display (PA)

A teenager is in hospital after losing an eye when he was hit by a firework on Bonfire Night.

Ferhan Enes Sahinler, 19, who is originally from Turkey, was struck in the face by a piece of firework falling from the sky when he was walking home from a display at Sefton Park in Liverpool.

The teenager, who was visiting his brother Fatih to learn English, was taken to the Liverpool Royal Hospital where doctors were forced to remove his left eye because of the damage done.

Mr Sahinler was leaving the park at around 9:30pm on Thursday when a piece of burning plastic hit a car on the Croxteth Drive roundabout and bounced off the bonnet into his face as he was walking past.

Fatih Sahinler said his brother was lucky because doctors had told him if the firework had exploded he would have been killed.

Fatih, who owns and runs a restaurant in the Toxteth area of the city, told the Liverpool Echo: “The doctors told me there was no way to fix his eye. It was absolutely destroyed. You can’t imagine how bad it is.

“I have to keep telling him: ‘You still have one eye’. I’m trying to make him calm down, but you can guess how he feels.”

He said he was angry about the incident and wanted to speak out so people “know about the dangers of fireworks”.