In a freak accident, a seven-year old girl allegedly choked to death after the rope of a swing got entangled around her neck in Sylhet on Thursday afternoon.
Mayisha, daughter of school teacher Shahjahan Kabir of the district’s Fenchuganj upazila, was playing with her sister at a park near their house in Mogolpur village when her neck accidentally got entangled in the rope of the swing she was riding on.
Hearing the screams of Mayisha’s sister, their mother rushed to the park and took her to Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
Md Shafayet Hossain, officer-in-charge of Fenchuganj police station, said they were aware of the tragedy.
Source: United News of Bangladesh