India, June 30 -- A toddler died after falling inside a hot kaddhai (vessel) in which chhole (chickpeas) was being cooked, two years after her sister's death in a similar incident. The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, after the 18-month-old girl's mother kept a pot of chickpeas on the stove for boiling.

According to a Times of India report, the mother had gone to another room, which is when the toddler, who was playing at the time, fell inside the vessel in which the chickpeas were being cooked.

The toddler's father Shailendra is a chhat seller, and her mother was cooking the chickpeas to prepare stuffing for preparing golgappas.

The toddler was rushed to a local hospital, then referred to another, where she s...