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NO PIPED WATER IN HOME, family of 7 FORCED TO BOIL WATER ON OPEN-FIRE Gran, 72, suffers second-degree burns

A GRANDMOTHER, who has not had piped water for a month at her Reservoir Hills home, sustained second-degree burns to 36% of her body, after she tripped and fell while carrying a 25-litre bucket of boiling water for her granddaughter’s evening bath.

Sakunthala Munnisunker, 72, of Nugget Road, had boiled a large pot of water on an outside fire and decanted some of it into a bucket.

She was carrying the

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