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    15 September 2012| last updated at 12:53AM

    20 students scalded in an explosion during a  barbecue at school



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    KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty Form Four and Form Five stu dents of a school at Taman Mulia, Bandar Tun Razak here were scalded when an explosion happened at a barbecue stove as they were preparing food to celebrate Aidilfitri at the school compound on Friday.

    Three of them were seriously injured in the 9.45am  incident

    One of the victims, Mohd Hidayat Mohd Yazid, 16, said he  and a few others were trying to start a fire for the barbecue  when a teacher told them to use 'thinner' to get it lit faster.

    "The explosion happened when the teacher poured thinner  onto the flames a second time. Three students and I were  badly injured in the incident, while the teacher was also  scalded," he said when met at his home at Bandar Tun Razak  here.

     The injured were sent to the Universiti Kebangsaan  Malaysia Hospital by teachers at the school.

    Mohd Hidayat was scalded in the legs and hands and  received out-patient treatment together with the teacher,  while his three colleagues were warded at the same hos pital.

    Cheras deputy police chief Supt Abd Rahim Hamzah  confirmed receiving a report on the incident and the case was  being investigated. - Bernama

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