An 11-year-old boy is in intensive care after suffering 95% burns. Allan Spiers was engulfed by a fireball when a fuel drum exploded at an unsupervised Bonfire Night celebration on Thursday in Law, Lanarkshire.

Sean Brickell reports from Glasgow on the horrific incident

"We expect that there will be a lot more bonfires over the weekend and we are urging people once again to be vigilant," said Roger Vincent of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Allan was transferred from Law Hospital at Carluke to the burns unit at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow early on Friday.

Another child and a 46-year-old neighbour were also injured at the event.

Colin Milne, 11, who was standing near Alan, suffered minor burns on his legs.

Brian Crawford suffered burns to his hands after running from his house to extinguish the flames that engulfed the youngster.

Strathclyde Police said Allan was injured when a 45-gallon drum, thought to have contained diesel fuel, blew up near the bonfire at 2050 GMT on Thursday.

Bystanders eventually extinguished the fire by wrapping the boy in a carpet.

Pioneering surgery

After another serious incident a teenager is to undergo a pioneering operation to save his right hand which was mutilated by a firework.

Sean MacLaughlan: Reconstructive surgery

Sean MacLaughlan will have one of his toes removed to a replace his thumb which was destroyed when a mortar rocket exploded in his hand.

The 17-year-old from Luton in Bedfordshire was injured when he was letting off fireworks in a field near his house on Sunday.

Surgeons at Mount Vernon Hospital in Middlesex performed an operation early on Sunday and another on Tuesday, in which they attached the badly damaged hand to skin from Sean's groin.

The hand will need to remain attached for the next three weeks, and it will take three months before Sean is ready to undergo reconstructive surgery.

A mortar rocket mutilated Sean's hand

In a separate incident, four children were hurt when an aerosol can exploded after being thrown on to a bonfire in Stornoway on Thursday night.