Bathtime goes with a bang

A woman has spoken of her terror when a chemical reaction caused by mixing two cleaning fluids resulted in an explosion in her toilet.

Shaheen Akhtar was cleaning the loo at her home in Leacroft Road, Normanton, while her nine-year-old daughter, Rumana Idris, was in the bath.



She used a thick bleach and then put a limescale remover in with it, causing a chemical reaction which blew the water out of the toilet, spraying the bathroom ceiling.

Fumes from the reaction meant the 40-year-old teaching assistant and her daughter had to be taken to Derbyshire Royal Infirmary for treatment. Mrs Akhtar described the incident as "petrifying".

Firefighter Steve Kent said: "This really is a warning to people not to mix cleaning products."