As mystery surrounded a schoolgirl’s death on campus in the Hilkot area here on Saturday, the police began an investigation.
“We’re trying to ascertain what exactly happened to the girl,” additional SHO of the Battal police station Shujaat Hussain Shah told reporters.
He said the body was shifted to a health centre to fulfil medico-legal formalities.
Mehrun Nisa Naseem complained to police that her 14-year-old eighth-grade daughter went to the Government Middle School Hilkot in the morning but at around 1230 noon, she was informed about her death.
“A teacher informed me over the phone that my daughter’s body is lying in the school’s backyard, so I rushed therewith my family members and found the body in a pool of blood,” she said.
Family claims 14-year-old died by suicide; police begin probe
The woman claimed that her daughter died by suicide.
The police shifted the body to the Battal rural health centre for postmortem.
Additional SHO Shujaat Shah said the police had collected “circumstantial evidence from the crime scene” and initiated investigation to ascertain the exact cause of death.
He said the girl’s annual examinations were under way.
Source: Dawn
