Three Fife children suffered burns following a camping kettle exploding at an after-school club in Fife.
The children, aged 11 and 12, were at Lumphinnans Primary’s outdoor cooking class when the accident happened.
Two pupils were treated for scalding to their faces and bodies and the third had burns on his back.
Fife Council has confirmed that a “full investigation is currently taking place”.
Brian Griffin, 42, of Cowdenbeath, whose son Ryan was one of the children hurt, described the incident, which took place on June 12, as “shocking.”
He told BBC Scotland that around 10 pupils had taken part in the after school event in a wooded area at the back of the school. Mr Griffin said the group was sitting together while water was being boiled in a camping contraption called a Kelly Kettle.
He said: “My son, Ryan, said they were all sitting around it and he saw the cork coming off so he quickly turned his back on it and it exploded all over his back.
“The pressure had built up inside it and meant it was a bomb waiting to go off.
“I’m very angry and upset because my son is badly burned and he was screaming with the pain when it happened.”
Ryan, a girl, and another boy, Charles Radlski, were all taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
Wojtek Radlski, the father of 12-year-old Charles, said his son was scalded on the face and shoulder.
More to follow.
