Minor dies falling into boiling milk pot

Taplejung, July  25 –  Three-year-old child of Mahesh Adhikari from Ilam district, who was injured severely by falling into the boiling milk at a dairy died while being taken to the hospital on Wednesday.

The child Ballav Adhikari had suddenly fallen into a boiling milk pot while playing in the dairy run by his family at Phungling-5 in the district on Tuesday morning.

The child breathed his last while being taken to the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. Ninety percent of his body was inflamed and burnt with the boiling milk. A local hospital in the district had referred the child to Dharan-based hospital for better treatment, but in vain.

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