A guy with a homemade flamethrower attacked patients at the Royal Liverpool Hospital

A 17-year-old boy cleared a path to the doctor's office in a clinic in an extremely unusual way.

The footage shows the 17-year-old British man using an aerosol can and a lighter and pointing the flame at two men in the emergency room.

Merseyside Police arrived at the scene where the young man was already being held by security officers.