A man was taken to hospital with burns to his face after a spray paint canister exploded.

Fire crews rushed to a garage, in St Luke's Road, Cowley, Oxford, after reports of an explosion at 8.30pm last night.

They found a man, in his mid-30s, suffering from burns. He was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Firefighters put out a small blaze in the concrete garage.

Story date: Wednesday 03 March

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