PUNE: An eight-year-old girl, who was playing on a swing that was made with a dupatta, died of asphyxiation on August 29 at Rupeenagar in Talawade.
The accident occurred when the girl was alone in the bedroom, while her three elder sisters were in another room. The Chikhali police have registered a case of accidental death.
The police said that on August 29, the girl’s father had gone to work, while her mother had gone to the market.
“Their four daughters were alone in the house at the time of the incident,” an officer from the Chikhali police said.
The girl had made a swing by tying a dupatta with the curtain rod at the bedroom window. “While playing, the dupatta got entangled around the girl’s neck and she died of asphyxiation,” the officer said.
The incident came to light, when one of her sisters entered the bedroom and saw the girl hanging from the dupatta and her feet were not touching the ground. “The girl was immediately taken to the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial hospital in Pimpri, where she was pronounced dead by the doctors,” the officer said.
