Two cousins are coming to terms with their scars one year on from being burned in an explosion.
Ashleigh and April were badly injured in an explosion at a pub on 24 April last yearOne year ago, cousins April and Ashleigh Charlesworth went to their local pub for April's birthday.
A man had thrown ethanol on a heater at the pub in Great Cornard, Suffolk, causing the bottle of fuel to explode just a few feet from where they were sitting.Being a nurse, 28-year-old Ashleigh knew to stop, drop and roll to put the flames out. April says she just panicked. "When you're in that situation you just don't know what to do."
April remembers looking in the toilet mirror and seeing her blistered and bleeding face but thinking she was fine. "When I was able to speak, the first thing I said was 'where is April? how is April?', and my partner said 'she's alive'," Ashleigh says.
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