A 14-year-old girl suffered burns while riding the Hogwarts Express train with her family, when they were on a holiday from Tennessee visiting Universal Studios in Orlando.
The unidentified girl was riding the train along with a group of young men. One of them had an e-cigarette or vaporizer pen in his pocket which exploded, a police in Florida said. He also described the explosion as a "fireball", causing the girl's face to be burned.
"It was just a weird, freak accident. It wasn't a big explosion but was definitely enough to scare everyone who was in that cab of the train," Lieutenant Dan Brady told the Orlando Sentinel.
The girl was then on the train that connects Universal Studios with the Island of Adventure theme park around 15:30 local time (19:30 GMT) on Saturday when the device malfunctioned and exploded. BBC News narrated that she suffered mild burns to her face, arm and leg, and was taken to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
The e-cigarette, that time, was inside the owner's pocket when it blew up, resulting to a minor burn to the man's leg as well.
A hole in a seat was also left after the explosion. Fortunately, there was no significant damage to the train, as stated by the officials.
After the incident, Universal Studios temporarily shut down the ride to let detectives investigate and interview witnesses.
Meanwhile, the Hogwarts Express can be experienced when one has a park-to-park admission ticket to pass through Platform 9 and board the said train. It will take a tour from King's Cross Station in London, located inside Universal Studios Florida theme park, and travel to Hogsmeade Station, located inside Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened to the public in 2010 at Universal Studios.
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