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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alahna Kindred

Baby dies after swallowing battery from toy that 'burnt hole in heart'

A baby boy died after swallowing a button battery, leaving him with catastrophic organ damage.

Hughie McMahon, one, ate a button battery that is thought to be from a singing teddy, and turned his blood acidic, burning a coin-sized hole in his heart.

Heartbroken parents Christine McDonald, 32, and Hugh McMahon, 29, say they held him in his arms as he passed away.

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