A fire-breather who was performing in front of hundreds of people has accidentally set his face on fire.
The firebreather was playing with the fire when he went ablaze
A video has shown the shocking moment a fire-breather accidentally set his face alight when a performance went badly wrong during a festival in Russia.
According to
Daily Mail UK, the man's face erupted in a ball of flames during a performance at a festival in the Russian city of Kemerovo in the country's south-western Kemerovo Oblast region.
He was the third fire-breather to set himself alight - and the most badly hurt - within minutes at the festival.
Footage filmed by witnesses show the man creating huge plumes of fire while surrounded by a crowd of spectators.
The crowd appeared to be a wide range of ages, with young children in the front rows watching the show.
The man accidentally set his face ablaze
Suddenly his face catches fire and he falls to his knees and tries to extinguish the flames.
But as fuel spills from his mouth the blaze gets only fiercer as spectators scream in horror.
Several people run out from the crowd to try to put out the flames with items of clothing while a young woman throws a bottle of water over the man.
He was rescued by spectators
The performer falls to the ground as he tries to recover from the injury, but it takes more than ten seconds for the flames to be put out.
The man, who has not been publicly named, had to be taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment to his injuries.
Earlier, another fire-breather had set his face alight while another's clothing went up in flames but both were able to put out the fires before any serious damage was caused.
Fire breathing is the dangerous art of creating a stream of fire by spitting out a mist of flammable fuel through an open flame.
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