Updated - Audio: Labour MP - We should, if necessary, ban fireworks, Falzon disagrees

UPDATED - Adds reaction by Michael Falzon - Labour MP Anton Refalo has said in Parliament that politicians should consider banning fireworks in order to avoid another repeat of last Sunday fireworks tragedy in Gharb. However Michael Falzon, Labour's spokesman for Home Affairs and legal adviser of the Pyrotechnics Association disagreed, telling timesofmalta.com that it was his personal view that prohibition would be wrong. Speaking in Parliament, Dr Rafalo recalled the sorrow suffered by Gozo two years ago when a fireworks factory explosion had claimed six lives. Gozo was now going through the same sorrow, having lost another four people on Sunday. He said that politicians should share the blame for having, for electoral or other reasons, never having adequately controlled the situation.  "I think the time has come for Parliament... for us politicians, if necessary, to stop fireworks because of the serious consequences and tragedies they cause, because of the  turmoil they cause to the families of the victims," he said. Parliament had a duty to act in order to avoid a repetition of such tragedies, Dr Refalo said. Expressing his sorrow for Sunday's tragedy, Dr Refalo said that...