PONDA: A 12-year-old native of Gokak-Karnataka, Maseria Mohammadsen Desai, died after accidentally falling to the ground while playing with other children at Bethora, Ponda on Monday.
Ponda police said that the girl’s father is a casual labourer. The girl, who was student at a school in Gokak, had come to her parents two years ago.
On Monday, she accidentally fell to the ground in front of the gate of the house where she was residing. She was immediately rushed to a private hospital at Ponda where the doctor on duty declared her ‘brought dead’.
The autopsy stated that the girl died due to ‘aspiration pneumonia’.