PENANG: A 64-year-old woman died of first-degree burns, eight days after her bed was accidentally set alight by her two grandsons, aged three and eight, in Balik Pulau, here.
Housewife Yeoh Saw Gaik, who had burns on her body and limbs, died at the Penang Hospital about noon yesterday. She was babysitting the two boys when the incident occurred on Dec 9.
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