Hoverboard explodes and sets house on fire nearly killing three children

Three children were nearly killed after a hoverboard exploded and set house on fire in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Jibril was playing at his nine-year-old friend Tony Chiem's house in St Mary's Drive, Wyke, when the hoverboard began to smoke before exploding in the living room. It was only thanks to the quick thinking of one of them, 13-year-old Jibril Muhammed Faris, that they were saved.

The hoverboard had been recently plugged into the socket to charge but once remove it began to smoke and eventually caught fire just before 9pm on January 16. As smoke filled the room and the flames grew bigger, Jibril managed to first rescue his friend's eight-year-old sister Karen Chiem, who suffered an injury to her foot, from the blaze to the safety of the upstairs bedroom. 

Jibril attempted to get out of the front door but the smoke prevented him from being able to find the key to open the door, forcing him to go upstairs. He then went back into the blaze-hit room to find his friend Tony and take him to the bedroom where his sister was. 

Jibril then dialled 999 and operators advised him to cover the bottom of the bedroom door so the smoke would not come through.