Exploding hair dryer sparked fatal barbershop fire: video

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Disturbing footage shows the moment a hair dryer exploded, sparking an out-of-control barbershop fire that claimed the lives of two men.

The shocking incident took place in July while a haircutter named Ashraful Islam was giving a customer a trim at a barbershop in Kanchpur, Bangladesh, Jam Press reported.

In the clip, the barber can be seen plugging a hair dryer into a wall outlet, before switching it on and off. He then proceeds to use the appliance on the client, named Hridoy Hasan, whereupon it appears to explode. In an instant, both the barbershop and the two men are engulfed in flames as if hit with a flamethrower.

The clip ends with groans and a woman screaming as smoke fills the still-smoldering room.

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Both victims were reportedly rushed to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery but unfortunately succumbed to their wounds.

The cause of the inferno is yet unclear; however, experts have blamed the blaze on excessive use of methanol-based aftershave. They believe that the barbershop's shoddy ventilation system resulted in the chemical infiltrating the hair dryer. Then, when the device was switched on, it ignited a fire in the heating coil like an accidental Molotov cocktail.