Paramedics and firefighters were called to the University of Liverpool at 8.48am this morning after a student was injured in a chemical explosion in a science lab, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Elsewhere at University of Manchester a building had to be evacuated and several city centre roads closed by police after an explosive chemical was discovered in a science lab.
Police were called to the Paper Science Building in Sackville Street, Manchester, at 11.30am this morning after reports that some Acetone Peroxide had ‘crystallised’ making it potentially explosive.
"We thought it was a drill but then were told there was a chemical leak in the Pariser building."
The emergency services were called to the Pariser Building shortly before 11.30am following concern about how acetone peroxide was being stored.