TRAGIC: 17-month-old baby dies after drinking mother’s kerosene

by ‘Jola Sotubo

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Tragedy struck in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara, when a 17-month-old baby drank kerosene after partaking in a meal of rice.

The incident occurred in the Kuntu/Agbo-Oba area when the mother, a kerosene seller, was absent.

The kerosene was mistaken for water and the little boy was poisoned by the sheer amount he drank. All attempts to save his life proved futile and he pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Leadership reports:

 

Narrating the family’s ordeal, the mother of the victim, who is a kerosene and yam-flour dealer, said though she had lost other children in the past, the loss of Abdulhafeez was inexplicable.

According to the middle-aged mother-of-four, simply identified as ‘Iya Luku,’ on the ill-fated day, her daughter, who had gone to sell kerosene to customers in the morning returned home with four unsold bottles which she left close-by.

“I left two half-filled bottles outside where I cooked and when their father, who had been out returned, he said the half-filled bottles should be properly kept. But before I could go put them away, his sister had opened the two half-filled bottles for him.

“When I came out, I saw my son in a terrible condition. He was writhing in pain and I shouted for help. We tried to give him palm oil but it took some minutes to pass it into his mouth,” she explained.

Iya Luku told LEADERSHIP FRIDAY that while they were on their way to the clinic, the baby fainted intermittently and excreted severally while his tongue turned black instantly.

At the hospital, baby Abdulhafeez was injected and vomited severally, but all efforts to resuscitate him proved abortive. He was declared dead minutes later.

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