<div align="justify">A five-year-old girl died of snake bite at her house in MRS Palya on Nandidurga Road in the early hours of Friday.<br /><br />The parents of victim Samanjatha woke up as the girl started screaming and writhing in pain around 3.30 am. The parents saw her fingers bleeding and initially mistook it for a centipede or a rat bite. But they panicked as her skin turned blue. The girl was rushed to a nearby private hospital, but she started frothing on the way. She was declared brought dead on arrival. The doctors said the death was possibly caused by a snake bite.<br /><br />The family members rushed back home and when searched, found the snake hiding in a corner of the house. After confirming that it was a cobra, they killed it and burnt it outside the house. Police said the snake may have crawled into the house from a drainage chamber in a vacant site near the house.<br /><br />Abraham, uncle of Samanjatha told DH that she had started going to school only a few days ago. She was the eldest daughter of Sadananda, an office assistant and Salome, a domestic help. <br /><br />Local corporator of Ramaswamy Palya, Netravathi, visited the family members and told them that after a case of unnatural death was registered, she would arrange for the release of a compensation. “But the parents were against postmortem and fearing autopsy, they did not even lodge a complaint with the jurisdictional JC Nagar police and performed the last rites.” Abraham said.<br /><br /></div>
<div align="justify">A five-year-old girl died of snake bite at her house in MRS Palya on Nandidurga Road in the early hours of Friday.<br /><br />The parents of victim Samanjatha woke up as the girl started screaming and writhing in pain around 3.30 am. The parents saw her fingers bleeding and initially mistook it for a centipede or a rat bite. But they panicked as her skin turned blue. The girl was rushed to a nearby private hospital, but she started frothing on the way. She was declared brought dead on arrival. The doctors said the death was possibly caused by a snake bite.<br /><br />The family members rushed back home and when searched, found the snake hiding in a corner of the house. After confirming that it was a cobra, they killed it and burnt it outside the house. Police said the snake may have crawled into the house from a drainage chamber in a vacant site near the house.<br /><br />Abraham, uncle of Samanjatha told DH that she had started going to school only a few days ago. She was the eldest daughter of Sadananda, an office assistant and Salome, a domestic help. <br /><br />Local corporator of Ramaswamy Palya, Netravathi, visited the family members and told them that after a case of unnatural death was registered, she would arrange for the release of a compensation. “But the parents were against postmortem and fearing autopsy, they did not even lodge a complaint with the jurisdictional JC Nagar police and performed the last rites.” Abraham said.<br /><br /></div>
