An 11-year-old girl named Mehzabin Raisa has died after suffering a head injury in a fall near a pond while visiting her maternal grandparents’ house in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi.
The incident took place in Galua Durgapur village under Galua union of the upazila on Friday afternoon.
The deceased Raisa was the daughter of Md Rafiqul Islam of Nadmulla village in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur. She had come to visit her maternal grandparents’ house with her mother on Thursday.
According to police and local sources, Raisa was washing her hands and face with her cousin near a pond behind her grandparents’ house on Friday afternoon. At that time, she suddenly felt dizzy and fell onto the pond bank, suffering an injury to the right side of her head and falling unconscious.
Later locals rescued the girl and took her to Rajapur Upazila Health Complex, where the duty doctor at the emergency department declared her dead.
Permission was given to bury the body without an autopsy as there was no complaint from the family, Rajapur Police Station officer-in-charge said.
