Hyderabad: A 16-year-old Intermediate student died after collapsing while attempting to pull a buffalo onto a stage during a Sadar festival celebration at Mansoorabad in LB Nagar on Sunday night.
According to police, the deceased, Pochaboina Bhavani Shankar, was an Intermediate second-year student. He was holding the buffalo by its horns and dancing moments before the incident, according to footage of the celebrations captured on camera.
In his complaint to the police, the boy's father, P Laxman Yadav, a businessman from Mansoorabad, said his son collapsed at around 9.40 pm. "During the celebrations, my son suddenly collapsed at around 9:40 pm. We immediately rushed him to a private hospital in LB Nagar, where doctors examined and declared him dead due to a heart stroke," he stated.
Based on the complaint, LB Nagar police registered a case of suspicious death under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
"The teenager suddenly collapsed during the event. We registered a case under Section 194 (suspicious death) of BNSS and shifted the body for postmortem to know the exact cause of death," LB Nagar inspector B Venkatesham said.