Four charged after boy, five, ‘incinerated’ in oxygen chamber explosion

A hyperbaric chamber at the Oxford Centre in Michigan (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Four people have been charged over the death of a five-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurised oxygen chamber that exploded at a medical facility in Detroit, Michigan’s attorney general has said.

Thomas Cooper, from Royal Oak, Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene. His mother was standing next to the chamber and suffered injuries to her arms when it exploded January 31 at the Oxford Centre in Troy, Michigan.