What happened on Peckham Rye Park today? (November 25)

[keano77]

Well, i was one of the people helping the poor child out.

He was carrying a homemade smoke bomb that day and it wasn't lighting when he put the lighter to it.

He then put some petrol over the bomb. He was playing around with his lighter after that and then his bomb seemed to ignite in his pocket.

The surrounding kids did nothing to help: some ran off, others just stared.

I t must have been a hurrendous ordeal for the child but i have heard that he was put in a special burns unit outside London.

On the first night he almost gave up hope and passed away, but he stayed with us and he is now recovering from his burns slowly but well.

It was quite a shocking ordeal for me aswell, let alone the boy.

[PeckhamRose]

keano that was good of you to track down my original posting, and let us know what happened.

How time flies. Makes me realise how long I have been a member of this forum!

I hope time heals your emotions and his injuries.