A seven-year-old girl student of Class II of a private school in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur city died after a portion of the school's washroom wall collapsed on her on Tuesday, police said.
Vaishali Sahu (7) was studying in Nirmal Gyanoday Public School at Gitanjali City Phase-2 area, Sarkanda Station House Officer Parivesh Tiwari said.
The incident took place when the student went to the school washroom at around noon. Suddenly, a portion of the partition wall collapsed, the SHO said.
She suffered critical head injuries in the accident. The teachers rushed her to the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in the city where doctors declared her dead. Police took the Director of the school, Naresh Sahu, into custody, Tiwari said.
Preliminary investigation suggested that the bathroom was without a roof and in a dilapidated condition, the SHO added.