It’s customary to celebrate Arab weddings with gunfire.
You might reasonably wonder (well at least I did): Do people ever get hurt at these friendly little celebrations?
It was just a shot in the dark, but I looked for statistics on people killed at Arab weddings and found the following in the Notable Incidents section of the Wikipedia page on Celebratory Gunfire:
- April 6, 2014: A 20-year old pregnant mother of two, Wadia Baidawi, was struck in the head and killed by a stray bullet from her neighbor’s wedding in Sidon, Lebanon.
- October 30, 2012: Twenty-three people were electrocuted after celebratory gunfire brought down a power cable during a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia.
- August 2012: A Kuwaiti bridegroom was killed when a friend of his accidentally shot him as he charged his gun to fire into the air in celebration.
I would have thought the numbers would be higher, but I guess I jumped the gun.
