In a tragic incident, a three-year-old girl was killed after she fell into a vessel filled with freshly-cooked mid-day meal at a government primary school in Rampur Atari village of Mirzapur on Monday.
“Anchal (3), who was not enrolled in the school, used to go there with her brothers Ganesh and Himanshul, who were students of classes II and V. Around 12 noon on Monday, as students gathered to have their mid-day meal, the girl lost her balance and fell into a large utensil of hot freshly-cooked vegetable,” District Magistrate Sushil Kumar Patel said.
At the time of incident, the cook was not there. As the students raised an alarm, teacher, Narendra Kumar Verma picked the girl out of the vessel and rushed her to a private hospital with 80 per cent burns.
She was later referred to a government hospital, where she succumbed to burns on Monday evening.
Principal of the school, Santosh Kumar Yadav, was suspended on the directive of the district magistrate.
There were 172 students and six cooks for the school. An FIR was registered against all six cooks at Lalganj police station.
A three-member committee was formed to probe the incident and submit a report to the Basic Shiksha Adikhari in two days.