A family in Orange Walk has been plunged into grief after their two year old drank insecticide this morning and died.  It happened around10:30 this morning in the on the Belize - Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town.  His mother says she was hanging out clothes while her two year old baby Justice Usher was playing in the yard.  She heard him crying and went to look for him.  She found him coming out of the store-room and saw liquid coming out of his mouth.  When she asked him what was wrong, the toddler reportedly told her, quote, “I drink juice.â€Â  She smelt insecticide on his breath, and, terrified, she tried to push her finger down his throat to force him to throw up – but that failed.  She ran to a taxi and rushed him to the Northern Regional Hospital but he died on the way.  He was pronounced dead at 10:50 amby doctors at the hospital.Â
The insecticide was the type used to get rid of termites. Â
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