Mystery shrouds death of 3-year-old boy

SURAT: A three-year-old boy died on Wednesday at New Civil Hospital (NCH). The boy was unwell for the past three days suffering from fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. He was brought to the NCH due to heavy vomiting where doctors declared him dead.
Condition of Shaurya, son of Raj Sharma, a furniture businessman, worsened on Wednesday after which the family shifted the boy to the hospital. However, upon arrival doctors declared him dead. Family members said that they found ‘pop-pop’, a type of tiny cracker, in Shaurya’s vomit and raised suspicion that he may have accidentally swallowed the cracker and fell sick.
Police sent the body for post mortem, while doctors collected viscera samples to find out what could have caused such severe health complications.
“It is yet not clear if the boy died due to swallowing some type of cracker. Only chemical analysis findings will confirm the exact cause,” said an officer in Dindoli police station.
In another incident, a month old baby suffered burns on her back while sleeping in a makeshift cradle made of saree on a footpath near Sosyo Circle. The saree was tied under a three-wheel pedal rickshaw and the parents realised that the baby suffered burns only in the morning. They told docs that the cloth cradle may have caught fire from embers of a cracker.