BOYS' FIREBALL HELL.TWO schoolboy friends were set alight when a game with petrol went horrifically wrong. Daniel Sinnitt, 12, and 10-year-old Lewis Nicholson had been playing with a remote control car and decided to set it on fire. But the blaze caused an explosion and turned the boys into human fireballs. Neighbours This article is about an Australian soap opera. For other articles with similar names, see Neighbours (disambiguation). Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera, which began its run in March 1985. heard their screams and rushed out to find the boys ablaze. Friend Courtney Errington, 10, was playing with the pair. She said: "The flames hit Lewis's head. The skin peeled off his forehead. Daniel's trousers were on fire and his skin was coming off his legs." The boys, of North Shields Coordinates: North Shields (or locally just Shields) is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in North East England. It is located eight miles (13 km) east of Newcastle upon Tyne. , Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear, former metropolitan county, NE England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Newcastle upon Tyne conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, , were last night in intensive care at Newcastle General Hospital waiting to see if they need skin grafts. Daniel's dad Andrew, 39, said: "We just pray he won't be scarred for life." |
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