Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, Oct 20: In an incident which happened at Shambhoor Aggarapade in the taluk on the evening of Thursday October 19, a girl died of snakebite after she placed her hand inside the chicken coop.
The ill-fated girl, Hansika (4), had gone near the chicken coop at her home at around 3.30 pm on Thursday. She placed her hand into the coop and saw that an egg had been broken open. She also told her parents that something hit her head during this time.
The girl's family found injury on her forehead but did not guess that it could have been created by the fangs of venomous snake. They just applied turmeric powder on the injury mark. The girl started to vomit thereafter. She was taken to hospital but the doctors who examined her told them that Hansika had breathed her last, having been bitten by poisonous snake.
Ansika, only daughter of Ratnakar and Dayavathi couple from Shambhoor Aggarapade, used to attend local Anganwadi.