CHILDREN, 9 AND 11, YOUNGEST EVER TO BE EUTHANIZED

Two children, aged nine and 11, have become the world’s youngest to be euthanized, according to a report.

The children were administered lethal injections in Belgium, which has the world’s only law allowing terminally ill children in “unbearable suffering” to choose to die. The nine-year-old had a brain tumour and the 11-year-old was suffering from cystic fibrosis.

Their deaths, which occurred in 2016 or 2017, were revealed in a report from the CFCEE, the commission that regulates euthanasia in Belgium, and their ages were confirmed by an official.

It confirmed that Belgian doctors had given lethal injections to three children over the two-year period, including to a 17-year-old who was suffering from muscular dystrophy.