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Florida man killed when device blew up in his face and launched shrapnel into his skull

Man dead after vape pen explosion in Florida
(Image credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

A man died when the vape pen he was smoking exploded into fragments that lodged in his skull, a post-mortem has found.

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