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