A NINE-year-old boy was attacked by a gang of teenagers with a petrol bomb while playing on a building site in Moorgate Street, Blackburn.

David Haydock escaped with a burned lip and eyelids and singed hair and eyebrows after a gang threw a milk bottle which burst into flames as it hit him.

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