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One-and-a-half-year-old dies after drinking battery acid
View(s):A one-and-a-half-year-old child died after mistakenly drinking battery acid at its residence in the Kiriella area in Ratnapura, yesterday (16).
The incident had taken place on Friday (15) when both parents of the child had left for work in the morning. The child was under the care of its aunt at the time of the incident.
The child, G. Sadeeshan Lakmali was rushed to the Ingiriya District Hospital after falling unconscious and was transferred to the Horana Base Hospital. The child was later sent to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital in Colombo for further treatment, after which it had died. The postmortem determined the cause of death as due to poisoning by the acid consumed.