Singapore – A 35-year-old father of five sustained fatal burns last week when his aromatherapy diffuser caused an explosion and fire in Singapore, a media report said on Thursday.

The family had been using the diffuser every night since haze from forest fires in Indonesia has been blanketing the city-state.

Mohammed Rizalludin Hassan was topping up the diffuser’s essential oil from a 5-litre container in the bathroom when the family heard a loud sound and saw him running out of covered in flames.

“When I saw my husband in flames, I was so shocked, I didn’t know what to do,” his wife Nurul Asyikin Norman told local tabloid The New Paper.

“I completely forgot all fire safety procedures in my panic.”

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