Five-year-old girl hospitalised after swallowing 50-gram gold bar

Beijing: A five-year-old girl in northern China was hospitalised after accidentally swallowing a 50-gram gold bar while playing at home, with doctors performing an emergency procedure to remove the object from her stomach. The girl was admitted to Beijing Children’s Hospital on August 16 after her condition became critical. An X-ray showed that the 4-cm gold bar had become lodged in her stomach.…