12-year-old girl dies after consuming poison in dance class

Bengaluru, Nov 1: A 12-year-old girl breathed her las, allegedly after consuming poison, in a dance class at Atoor Layout, near Yelahanka.

The girl, a class 5 student, had gone to a routine dance class on Monday evening. She went to the bathroom to change and came to the class, and immediately started vomiting.

She was rushed to a hospital where she died later in the night, according to the police.

The police found a bottle of medicine used to treat lice infestation in the hair, and suspect she consumed it in the bathroom.

“We have booked a case of suspicious death. Preliminary questioning pointed to her low marks in social sciences exam, but we are not ruling out that she could have consumed the medicine by mistake,” said a senior police officer.