This is the moment a hoverboard exploded at a family home in China last week terrifying the young children who were playing with it.

The video, which was captured in Hefei City in Anhui Province on August 16, shows a boy riding the board in a living room when it suddenly starts spewing smoke.

The child jumps off the hoverboard and runs away just as it bursts into flames close to his young sister.

Fortunately, neither child was injured in the incident.