A 12-year-old girl died of heatstroke on Wednesday when she went to fetch water from a hand pump located 500 meters away from her house in parched Sabalkhed village in Beed district of drought-affected Marathwada region.
Yogita Ashok Desai, studying in fifth standard, had gone to fetch water for her house from the nearest handpump, located half a kilometre away, when she collapsed mid-way. Before the incident, the already dehydrated girl had made four trips to the handpump from her residence.
The unconscious Yogita was taken by her family members to the nearby hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival.
The doctors, who examined Yogita on her arrival at the hospital, said that she had died due to heatstroke and a heart attack.