Mum's horror after kitchen table 'EXPLODES into million pieces' after 'almighty bang'

A ‘house proud’ mum from Salford was left in shock after her dining table ‘spontaneously exploded’. Angela Dunbar, 64, of Swinton, was upstairs in her home when she heard an ‘almighty bang’.

The gran-of-ten said the noise was so loud she thought a car had crashed outside her house before spotting the glass dining table had ‘exploded into a million pieces’. “We had just done the school drop-off and I had gone upstairs,” Angela told the M.E.N. "All of a sudden, I heard an almighty bang. It sounded like something had crashed outside - it was like a massive explosion.

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“Me and my husband ran to the window but there was nothing there. He went downstairs to have a look and said to me ‘You better come and see this’. I can’t even describe what it looked like, it was as if the table had literally just exploded. It was shattered into a million different pieces. There was glass everywhere, there was nothing left of the table whatsoever.”

Angela, a former childminder, said she still has no idea how the table managed to explode. She said she bought the table around two-and-a-half years ago from Housing Units, a home department store based in Oldham.

After the incident, Angela said her first reaction was to get in touch with the shop to figure out what had happened but, despite leaving voicemails, she said her calls went unanswered. “I was just in shock,” she added.

“All I kept thinking about was what if this had happened at another time? Our lad could have been doing his homework at the table or something. We have ten grandchildren so what if it happened during Sunday dinner when everyone was sitting around? It doesn’t bear thinking about.”

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