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A 'sweet' child from Tameside died after participating in a social media 'craze' called Chroming, which had been widely shared on TikTok, an inquest has heard.

Oliver Gorman, 12, was found unresponsive in his bedroom on the evening of May 5 this year, after arriving from holiday at the family home in Hyde .

He was rushed to hospital but could not be saved. A number of empty deodorant bottles were found in his room, and a post-mortem found he died as a result of the inhalation of butane gas– a propellant found in many aerosol deodorants.

A coroner has now raised a 'major concern' about the spread of these so-called challenges on TikTok, and accused the platform of 'disseminating these challenges quite happily' - making them 'easily accessible' to impressionable youngster

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