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A 12-year-old boy has suffered serious burns after being set on fire by men asking if he ‘wanted to see a magic trick’.
Two hooded men approached the young boy and his friend in Bancroft Park in Blackpool between 8pm and 9pm on Tuesday.
They set fire to the victim’s t-shirt with a cigarette lighter after asking him: ‘Do you want to see a magic trick?’
A witness stopped to help and quickly took the boy, who suffered burns across his torso, to hospital.