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Man Destroys Apartment While Fixing Airbed

A man inadvertently blew up his apartment while he was attempting to repair a leaky airbed. The 45-year-old, who lives in the western German city of Düsseldorf, saw his DIY attempt end in disaster on Tuesday, leaving both him and a three-year-old girl with burns.

The man had applied tire repair solvent to a hole in the mattress and left it overnight. When he went to inflate it the next day, a spark from the electric air pump ignited it, the local fire brigade told reporters.

The blast was so strong that it pushed the living-room wall into the building's stairwell and caused extensive damage to the apartment, blowing out windows and wrecking furniture.