A Missouri girl suffered severe burns and a coma after a toy exploded in her face following a TikTok experiment.

It all happened so quickly,” said the victim’s father. “I heard her scream, and it was like a blood-curdling scream.” ...

"We dumped out the bag of toys and she started picking through them," Olivia Brado tells PEOPLE. "Then I kept hearing her say, 'Papa, papa.' " Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE.

According to Consumer Reports, the TikTok challenge involves freezing, then microwaving the toys to make them more pliable.