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New Year's firecrackers in the Philippines left one man dead and hundreds injured after residents ignored government warnings about the dangerous devices.

Ronald Vericio died after shouting 'goodbye Philippines' as the firecracker exploded late last night, officials confirmed.

The noisy crackers, which are believed by many in the country to drive away bad luck, also set fire to more than 1,000 huts in Manila after revellers accidentally fired a rocket into an abandoned hut. 

New Year's firecrackers in the Philippines left one man dead and hundreds injured after residents ignored government warnings about the dangerous devices. Above, an injured man is helped out of a vehicle

Firecracker victims - including this young boy - were rushed into emergency rooms grimacing in pain as they held their bloodied limbs

The noisy crackers, which are believed by many in the country to drive away bad luck, also set fire to more than 1,000 huts in Manila

The 380 injuries come despite a gory government campaign showing pictures of past victims with horrific injuries.  

Firecracker victims were rushed into hospitals across the country grimacing in pain as they held their bloodied limbs.

An eight-year-old boy in the northern farming province of Nueva Vizcaya had three of his fingers amputated after a firecracker exploded in his hands, the country's health secretary Janet Garin said. 

At least nine children had their fingers amputated due to firecracker injuries, she added.

A young boy clutches his bloodied fingers as he waits in hospital following New Year's celebrations on Thursday

One boy squeezed his eyes shut as he was attended to by a medic after injuring himself in a firecracker explosion

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One young firework accident victim was taken to East Avenue Hospital by a medic who held her in his arms

A blood-covered young boy turns his head away as medical staff treated his wounds on New Year's Eve

Many of the victims came in with groups of friends who were also covered in blood following a night with the dangerous devices 

Elsewhere in the Philippines, 200 huts were razed to the ground after a separate fire spread. 

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A group of young boys were forced to run through a back alley as fire spread through a residential area in Manila

A resident jumps from their property as fire engulfs a house in Tondo, Manila at the height of New Year celebrations

An aerial shot shows the fire raging through the neighbourhood, which is one of the poorest in the area

A boy retrieves some items following an early morning fire that engulfed the poor neighborhood of Tondo while residents celebrated the New Year

Officials promoted professional firework displays at shopping centres and in cities in a desperate bid to stop residents putting on their own shows. Above, a display in Bocaue

A large religious group, Iglesia ni Cristo, said it set off more than 700,000 pyrotechnic devices to try to break a Guinness record for the largest fireworks display. 

Tens of thousands of church members and other revelers watched the spectacle in Bocaue town in Bulacan province, north of Manila. 

Meanwhile, an annual procession of the Black Nazarene - a wooden statue of Jesus Christ - was held a day earlier than usual on New Year's Eve to prevent injuries from mounds of trash and unexploded firecrackers.