Southport boy, 12, needs skin graft after toy bought in Lidl 'explodes'

WARNING: this article contains an image of the injury13:21, 31 Jul 2026A mum said her son needed a skin graft when a squishy toy purchased from Lidl "heated up on a windowsill and exploded", leaving him with horror burns. Avyaan Narula, 12, was playing with the NeeDoh cube during the heatwave on Friday, July 17, when it "popped", sending warm goo from inside the cube spilling onto the top of his left foot.‌Horrified mum Aarti, 44, raced into the kitchen after she heard her son "screaming" and desperately tried to remove the sticky substance from his skin. Aarti washed the molten liquid from Avyaan's foot under the cold tap, but said that an hour later the skin on the top of his foot had "bubbled up".‌The mum-of-two took Avyaan to the walk-in centre as he began to lose sensation in that are