Over 2,000 kids die every day due to accidental injuries

More than 2,000 children die every day due to unintentional or accidental injury and every year tens of millions more worldwide are taken to hospitals with injuries that often leave them with lifelong disabilities, a new report by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF says. 

The report says that unintentional injuries are the leading cause of childhood death after the age of nine and of them, 95 percent occur in developing countries.

The World Report on Child Injury Prevention provides the first comprehensive global assessment of unintentional injuries of children and prescribes measures to prevent them.

If proven prevention measures were adopted everywhere, at least 1,000 children's lives could be saved every day, the report suggests.