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Case Series and Case Reports

Accidental childhood fatalities in Manipal, India

Tanuj Kanchan DFM MD      Ritesh G Menezes PGDMLS Diplomate NB  

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore 575001, India

Correspondence to: Dr Tanuj Kanchan, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore 575001, India Email: tanujkanchan{at}yahoo.co.in, tanujkanchan{at}gmail.com

Children in the first decade of life are extremely vulnerable to accidents. Seventy-five cases of accidental deaths in children aged less than ten years were identified in a retrospective review of medicolegal autopsies during 1993–2006 in Manipal, India. Boys were more likely to suffer accidental death that girls (male–female ratio 2.3:1). Road traffic accidents accounted for the majority of the deaths (56%), followed by burns (21.4%).

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