Police said the little girl, Anusha Kumari was sleeping in her cot, while the mother has gone out of the home.
She was admitted to the Bogawanthalawa Hospital with critical injuries and later she was transferred to the Kandy Teaching Hospital.
Police said little child’s cot made of Polythene, was fixed very close to the fireplace.
The girl’s father is employed in Colombo and she has a brother who is just four-years old.