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Eight-year-old dies after snakebite at Telangana government school
Eight-year-old dies after snakebite at Telangana government school
An eight-year-old boy died on Thursday, August 6, after a snake bit him at Elkaspur government school in Telangana’s Narayanpet, Siasat.com reports. The boy, identified as Ranjith, was taken to Narayanpet government…
The Story in Brief
An eight-year-old boy died on Thursday, August 6, after a snake bit him at Elkaspur government school in Telangana’s Narayanpet, Siasat.com reports. The boy, identified as Ranjith, was taken to Narayanpet government hospital, where he died during treatment. Further details were awaited.
The incident follows the death of a nine-year-old girl, Harika, who was bitten by a snake while asleep in Medak’s Chinnashankarampet mandal last month. Siasat.com said rural areas remain vulnerable to snakebites during the monsoon and post-monsoon period, when snakes may enter human habitation after leaving their usual habitat.
The Indian Opinion
It would be lazy to treat this as just an unavoidable monsoon mishap, or to blame a school without facts about the premises and response time. The immediate questions are practical: were classrooms checked, was emergency transport available, and did the hospital have antivenom? Public anger should lead to those answers, not rumours. A clear account of the school’s safety checks and treatment timeline would show what failed.
Source: siasat.com
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