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Teen hospitalised after air freshener causes car explosion

Fire fighters extinguish the inferno that left a teenager injured after an air freshener caused a car explosion

BERLIN: A German teenager has suffered serious injuries after accidentally creating an explosion in the family car with air freshener.

Police in the western city of Duisburg say the 17-year-old boy had been trying Wednesday to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke in a recently purchased second-hand Volkswagen SUV.

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