Bengaluru: 13-year-old girl falls from 12th floor flat, dies

Bengaluru: A 13-year-old girl died after she fell from the balcony of her 12th floor flat in an apartment complex in Bengaluru’s Hulimavu.

The deceased has been identified as Vaishnavi, daughter of Veerendra Kumar and Suman who lived in the flat at Venugopal Nagar.

The incident took place on Saturday around 10.30 pm when Vaishnavi was playing on the balcony after having dinner.

The security personnel and residents rushed to the spot after hearing the loud sound as she fell. The police shifted the body to a hospital and handed it over to the family after postmortem.

“We don’t know whether [the deceased] died by suicide or accidentally fell from the balcony,” police said.

A case of unnatural death has been registered.