A schoolboy pleaded with his mum to let him die after being engulfed in flames in a horrific incident. Hunter Jory, 12, was playing with friends in a field during the school holidays when tragedy struck.

One child lit a small fire and another threw a petrol can onto the flames, causing a massive explosion that set Hunter alight.

The youngster managed to run to the house of a nearby friend, who alerted his mum, Kim. She quickly took him to a nearby doctor's surgery while waiting for an ambulance.

Kim, from Sheffield , revealed her son was in such agony he begged her to end his suffering. "It was heartbreaking," Kim, 38, said.

"When I got the call saying Hunter was in agony and needed to go to hospital, I assumed he'd been run over.

“I didn’t think for a minute that he’d been set on

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