India News | Maha: Toddler Consumes Pesticide Fallen on the Floor of His House, Dies
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A one-and-half-year-old boy died on Tuesday after he accidentally consumed pesticides that had fallen from a box in his house a day earlier in Kapil Nagar area of Nagpur, police said.
Nagpur, Dec 7 (PTI) A one-and-half-year-old boy died on Tuesday after he accidentally consumed pesticides that had fallen from a box in his house a day earlier in Kapil Nagar area of Nagpur, police said.
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Farmer Ajay Patil had bought six boxes of pesticides to spray in his field and one of the boxes was pushed to the floor by a cat on Monday, said a Kapil Nagar police station official.
"His only son Riyansh accidentally consumed some of the pesticide that was lying on the ground. He was first taken to a private hospital and then shifted to a government hospital where he died on Tuesday afternoon," he said.
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