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Balloon suspected of killing kindy kid
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-09 09:01

An unsupervised toddler is thought to have choked on a balloon in Chengmai county, Hainan province, last Monday.

Classmates of the 4-year-old girl told police she collapsed after the balloon she was inflating shot from her grasp into her mouth and blocked her throat in the absence of any teachers.

Since police found no external trauma on her body, the cause of He's death cannot be determined without an autopsy.

But her mother refuses to allow one, asserting that the kindergarten is fully responsible for the child's death.

Doctors advise that children under the age of five should not have access to products made of rubber or jelly-like substances.

(Nanguo Metropolis Daily)