Piece of sweet kills 3-year-old boy

A three-year-old Saudi boy died after a piece of sweet he was eating got stuck in his throat and blocked his breathing system.

After failing to pull the piece out, the boy’s parents rushed him to hospital in the western town of Medina but he died on arrival.

“Doctors said the boy of suffocation after his respiratory system was blocked by the piece of sweet that got stuck in his throat,” Sabq newspaper said, quoting Medina police spokesman Colonel Fahd bin Al Ghannam.

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