Girl’s Hair Goes Up in Flames After She Washes It With Gasoline to Get Rid of Lice
A head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) crawls on a piece of paper after having been removed from the hair of a little boy, on June 22, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A teenager was left with severe burns after she was told to wash her hair with gasoline in a bid to get rid of head lice.
The 16-year-old Turkish girl doused her hair in gasoline after a school friend told her it would kill the head lice, but she accidentally got too close to a heater and set herself on fire.
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