An 11-month-old baby boy was almost boiled alive after accidentally falling in to a bucket of scalding-hot water in Ukraine.
Doctors are battling to save the life of little Daniil Chernenko after he suffered horrific burns to 80 per cent of his body in the village of Salhany, Ukraine.
Heartbreaking pictures taken by a charity volunteer show Daniil lying on the bed and covered in bandages after being hospitalized.
The incident is said to have unfolded when the baby was about to have a bath. His mother Tetyana Chernenko reportedly brought a bucket with boiling water in to the bedroom and put it on the floor near a table.
She planned to mix some boiling water with cold water in a baby bathtub that was standing on the table so she could bath her son.
At this point, Daniil was playing on the table near the bathtub. But when his mother turned away for a few seconds to take some cold water, the child fell from the table into the scalding hot bucket of water.
Mrs Chernenko said: 'I saw how he fell in the boiling water. I rushed to the bucket and pulled him out.
'I hugged him, then wrapped him in a cotton cloth. When I unwrapped him I saw his skin was peeling off.'
Daniil was rushed to hospital in Odessa, the capital city in critical condition and diagnosed with burns to 80 per cent of his body.
Police are treating the case as an accident.
Baby is nearly boiled alive after falling into scalding-hot water
Doctors are battling to save the life of little Daniil Chernenko after he suffered horrific burns to 80 per cent of his body in the village of Salhany in southern Ukraine's Odessa Oblast region.
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