A nursing mother in Benin City, Edo State, Mrs. Ata Buhari, has allegedly served her 18-month-old baby kerosene, instead of water.
The incident which led to the death of the child, occurred at about 10 a.m. last Tuesday, at Iguma Street, off Orewere Street, off Medical Stores Road, Benin.
It was gathered that the victim, Isreal Buhari, who complained to his mother, a kerosene seller, that he was thirsty, was given a liquid stored in a beverage can to drink, unknown to the mother that it was kerosene.
The child, the only male among the four children of his parents, had drank some of the content before his mother realized her error.
Few minutes after drinking the kerosene, the little boy’s eyes turned white as he screamed uncontrollably.
The distraught mother, with the help of neighbors, gave him palm oil to drink before he was rushed to a hospital…
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