HEROIC SIX YEAR OLD DIES AFTER SAVING HER BABY BROTHER FROM BOILING WATER

A heroic young girl died from severe burns after she threw 

herself on top of her baby brother to save him from boiling water.

Tatyana Yantuganova said her one-and-a-half-year-old son would 

have been killed if not for the brave actions of his older sister.

Tragically, six-year-old Masha later died after bungling medics 

failed to treat her horrific third degree burns immediately.

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Hero: Masha Yantuganova died of severe burns after throwing herself on top of her little brother to protect him from boiling water

The children's parents said they had popped into the garden 

of their home in the tiny Russian village of Suuk-Chishma in the 

Russian Republic of Bashkortostan when the tragedy occurred.

Dima had been playing inside with his sister when he accidentally 

caught a cable to the family's an electric kettle with his leg. 

As boiling water flooded towards the toddler, Masha had thrown 

herself over him letting the boiling hot water pour over her.

Tatyana described hearing her daughter's horrific screams as 

she ran out of the house to find her mother.

She said: 'She was in terrible pain but didn't cry as she didn't want 

to worry me.'She just kept saying that I had to take care of Dima.'

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Masha, pictured as a young child, threw herself over her brother letting 

the boiling hot water pour over her

As Tatyana soaked both children in icy water, other members 

of the family tried to call for an ambulance but there was no answer.

The desperate mother then borrowed a neighbour's car and rushed

 her children to a local hospital where they were then made to wait 

for up to an hour before they could see a doctor.

Tatyana said that when the doctors finally arrived they smeared ointment 

over her baby and then said they had run out and didn't have enough for 

her daughter. 

She raced to another hospital but Masha lost consciousness on the way. 

When they arrived the girl was taken into intensive care but later died.

Tatyana said: 'Masha died in the hospital. The doctors said she had burns 

on 60 percent of her body.She died because of lack of first aid.

'My son Dima had burns to 40 percent of his body but he is alive because 

he got treatment.' 

Guardian.uk