NAGPUR: A 10-year-old girl from Kerala, who had arrived in Nagpur to participate in the Cycle Polo National Championship, died at a private hospital on Thursday morning. The girl, who had been vomiting since Wednesday evening, walked with her coach to the hospital 200 metres from where the team was staying, collapsed and died within minutes of reaching there.
The deceased, identified as Fathima Nida Shihabuddin, from Alappuzha district of Kerala, had arrived with a 24-member contingent of Kerala Cycle Polo Association (KCPA) in the wee hours of Wednesday. She started vomiting in the evening, and the accompanying coaches gave her some medicine. When the vomiting did not stop till Thursday morning, she walked with her coaches to the hospital. Doctors gave her an injection to stop the vomiting. A few minutes later she collapsed, KCPA women's team coach Jithin told TOI.
