These images show the horrendous burns caused to a woman’s legs after she says she was hit by an exploding e-cig battery.

Jana Barker had been in a car with her husband Paul and young daughter Janka, seven, when there was a loud bang and her bag burst into flames.

Paul who was driving towards the M60, quickly pulled over at the Denton roundabout and Jana, 34, jumped out of the smoke-filled car.

Her clothes were burnt and the back seat of the Peugeot 306 was on fire.

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She was taken immediately to Stepping Hill hospital where she was treated before being sent to the burns unit at Wythenshawe Hospital because of the severity of her injuries.

The warehouse operative, who lives in Woodley, was given gels and pain relief and is now recovering at home, but was told she would have to go back to the unit as she may have nerve damage.

Paul, 43, described the experience on Saturday afternoon as “petrifying”.

He told the M.E.N: “It went off like a firework.

“All I could hear was screaming and there were smoke and flames everywhere in the back.

“Our little girl was terrified and didn’t know what to do. It was petrifying.”

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The battery that exploded was an EFEST battery which hadn’t been attached to an e-cig and had just been kept in Janna’s handbag as a spare.

Paul added: “How it could just combust I have no idea but people need to be warned about these batteries as they’re a popular brand.

“We’d been about to get on the M60 heading to Bury – what would’ve happened if it exploded when we were doing 70mph in the fast lane?

“Or if it had gone off in our flat at 3am? It wouldn’t have been long before the entire place went up.

“When I heard Jana scream I didn’t know what was going on, I genuienly thought she was burning to death. It’s lucky that Janka wasn’t in the back with her.”

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The EFEST battery had been bought in November and had been charged a few days earlier.

It’s not the first battery manufactured by the company that has been reported to the M.E.N after an explosion.

Last month, a young mum was left needing plastic surgery after the same make of e-cig battery exploded in her face.

Kirby Sheen’s eye lid was split in two by the mouth piece of the device which was propelled towards her by the blast

The 24-year-old, who lives in Salford with partner Adam Burgess, 27, and their daughters Aymaris, two, and Ayviarna, six months, had only wanted to check if the battery was working but said she was instead left scarred for life.

The M.E.N has contacted EFEST, who are based in China, for a comment in relation to both incidents and is awaiting a response.