
Jaipur, February 26 A nine-year-old girl died from what is suspected to be a cardiac arrest at a private school in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place on Monday morning in the town of Gotan.
Police said that Divya Bapedia, a Class 5 student and resident of Talnapur, was playing with other children on the school grounds before morning prayers when she suddenly collapsed.
School staff took her to the local community health center (CHC), where doctors pronounced her dead, they added.
Doctors suspected cardiac arrest as the cause of her death.
CCTV footage from the playground, which surfaced on social media on Thursday, shows Divya playing moments before she collapsed.
Dr Sukhram, in charge of the Gotan CHC, said that the girl had no prior medical history. There were no external injuries on her body, and a preliminary investigation indicated cardiac arrest as the probable cause of death.
The family refused a post-mortem, and the body was handed over to them.