Dozens received injuries during the Hingot War festival that sees devotees fling balls of fire at each other.

Footage from Indore, Madhya Prashed, on October 26 shows two groups hurling hingots, a hollow fruit filled with gunpowder, at each other.

The festival is celebrated each year on the second day of Diwali. The tradition could be not performed in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.

Seven people were wounded and 23 others received minor injuries while celebrating the traditional Hingot war, a kind of fireball, fest in Gautampura village.

It is a centuries-old tradition, which is celebrated every year on the second day of Diwali, but this year the tradition was followed on the third day of the festival of lights. Hingot is a fruit, which is plucked and dried, after which it is stuffed with gunpowder and tied to wood. It is then lit up and thrown at each other as a part of the tradition of the fest.

On Wednesday evening, 150 people of two groups- Turra and Kalgi- took part in the fest. They fired Hingot on each other in which seven people sustained injuries leaving 23 people with minor injuries. (The tradition could not be performed for the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.