Mangalore: The parents of Apoorva, aged 13, who died of shortness of breath, after the rope of a swing tightened around her neck unawareness, when she was at play on Sunday, September.25, clarified that her death was only accidental, and not otherwise as reported in some newspapers.
Apoorva was a slow-witted child, but good at studies. Her normal skills had not quit developed, the parents admitted. When the mother returned from shopping, she found the child on a swing with a rope round her neck and then rushed her to a hospital.
he was brought dead in a matter of 15 minutes. The child could not wriggle out of the noose, her sorrowing father clarified. Apoorva played on swings by going round. It was not a suicide, he stated.