Four injured in Danish library chemistry show explosion

COPENHAGEN: Three children and an adult were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a chemistry show at a local library in Denmark, police said. A 22-year-old university student who was carrying out an experiment was seriously injured and taken to hospital, police said in a statement, though his life was not in danger. Two of the three children suffered “lighter injuries” requiring hospital care, while the third did not need to go to hospital, police added.

The cause of the explosion was not immediately known, and police said its experts had determined there were “no dangerous chemicals at the scene”. According to organiser Aalborg University, the display was intended to “show different ways of making explosions”.