An eight-year-old boy had a close shave with death after a freak accident while he was sleeping.

Lorenzo Lopez, from the US state of Kansas, was left with ‘excruciating’ burns after his chain necklace got caught between his phone charger and an extension cable.

He woke up after feeling heat on his neck and tried to scream but couldn’t.

But his quick thinking saved his own life as he managed to pull the chain off his neck while his t-shirt was on fire.

He told KWCH from his hospital bed that he ‘thought I was going to die’ and said the incident on November 20 was ‘just scary’.

Lorenzo said: ‘It was chaos, but I do remember some of it.’

His mum Kourtney Pendleton said: ‘Lorenzo rolled over in his sleep and his chain necklace just happened to fall in between where the gap was on the ext

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