Disfigured body, 80% burns: Dangerous TikTok challenge leaves US teen 'unrecognisable'

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After the viral Benadryl trend on TikTok claimed the life of a boy from the United States Ohio, a similar challenge left a 16-year-old boy with third degree burns..

A TikTok challenge went horribly wrong when a group of teens in North Carolina tried to create a makeshift torch using a spray paint can and a lighter, The New York Post reported...

The TikTok challenge triggered an explosion and left the 16-year-old boy, Mason Dark, severely disfigured with burns covering nearly 80% of his body, the report said..

Mason Dark and his friends from Wake Forest were trying the trend when the can of spray paint he was holding exploded with a huge bang, consuming him in flames...

Mason was rushed to the UNC Burn Center with burns covering 76% of his body, his mother told the New York Post...

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