CCTV cameras in eastern Russia captured this funny New Year's Eve fireworks fail.

Footage recorded at an apartment building in Khabarovsk in the early hours of January 1 shows a man setting light a box of fireworks inside the entrance hall to the block.

With the fuse lit, he then walks outside but the pyrotechnics go off in his hands and explode all around him.

Luckily he was not injured in the incident, according to local reports.

CCTV cameras installed on one of the apartment buildings in Khabarovsk recorded the consequences of a careless launch of a firecracker. The man set fire to the fuse of the fireworks right in the entrance, and the firecracker went off in his hands. Eyewitnesses reported that the incident was without consequences, the man was not injured.

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