5-year-old girl hospitalised after swallowing solid gold bar worth £5300

A 5-year-old girl who swallowed a solid gold bar worth £5300 required a risky hospital procedure in order to remove the pricey object from inside of her stomach

A five-year-old girl in northern China accidentally swallowed a 50-gram gold bar, sparking viral jokes online that she took the mainland nickname for children – “gold-devouring beasts” – far too literally. The Beijing Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Capital Medicine University, reported the case that was treated o