KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Twenty Form Four and Form Five
students 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 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 hospital.
Cheras deputy police chief Supt Abd Rahim Hamzah confirmed receiving a report on the incident and the case was being investigated.
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 hospital.
Cheras deputy police chief Supt Abd Rahim Hamzah confirmed receiving a report on the incident and the case was being investigated.
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