A teenage boy in central China has died after picking up a plastic cup that was thought to have been used to store weedkiller and using it to drink from a river, local media reported.
The teenager from Shiyan in Hubei province, who had just celebrated his 15th birthday, became seriously ill a week after the incident and was taken to intensive care, where he spent three weeks before succumbing on Thursday, 10yan.com reported.
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