Toddler dies a day after head submerged in basin during bath time


BALIK PULAU: A toddler died at Penang Hospital less than a day after she was briefly submerged in a pail during bath time.

Balik Pulau OCPD Supt A. Anbalagan said the little girl, aged one year and five months, was with her babysitter when she died at 2am on Wednesday (March 3) at the hospital after being rushed there unconscious on Tuesday (March 2).

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