SHOT BY A FIRECRACKER?

TV6, how is it possible that a 12 year old boy is "shot" in the shoulder by a firecracker?
At 7pm Samantha John read that "A 12 year old boy has been shot in the shoulder." The first thing that comes to your viewers' minds is 'Who was the fool playing with a gun near a 12 year old boy?'.
Then she told us that he "was playing with a firecracker when it exploded and he was rushed to hospital."
So then your viewers think "Steups! But he wasn't shot!"

Who wrote the script? Who checked and double checked it??