BOY BADLY BURNED
Explosion Of Petrol Can <N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 18A five-year-old boy was gravely burned when a can of petrol exploded at West Tamaki this morning. The boy. David Bruce Smith, of 15 Kestrell place. East Tamaki, was seriously ill in the Auckland Hospital tonight suffering from severe shock and extensive bums to his back, chest and lower body David Smith, his 13-year-old brother, Lionel Douglas Smith, and other boys were playing cowboys and indians. They fit a fire in a play hut and in the heat of its flames began hardening the tips of wooden arrows. Every time the fire died down m the hole cut in the floor of the hut they would replenish it with petrol from the can. The can heated up and petrol exploded into flame, both brothers being burned. Lionel Smith was admitted to the Auckland Hospital with bums on his left hand and shock. His condition tonight was fairly satisfactory.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 16
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