The boy's father said that his son was playing with other children who were bursting 'lehsun' crackers when he picked up a packet and put it into his mouth. Diwali turned into a nightmare for a family in Chhattisgarh after their two-year-old child died when a firecracker exploded inside his mouth. The child was playing outside his home in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district when he picked up and chewed on the small firecracker.