10-year-old Delhi boy perishes while doing a stunt from a video while skipping rope.

  • June 24, 2022, 12:15 p.m.

Tragedy struck the family of a 10-year-old boy in Delhi as he suffocated to death in a skipping rope accident while trying to enact a stunt he had seen in a video, reported a news agency quoting police on Thursday. The incident took place in northeast Delhi’s Kartar Nagar area around 7 pm on Wednesday when he was at home with his mother, they said.

"The boy used to watch a lot of stunt videos. On Wednesday evening, while he was skipping inside a room, he tried to perform one such stunt, but the skipping rope got wrapped around his neck and suffocated him. He fainted as a result, "a senior police officer was quoted as saying. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead. The parents had not made a PCR call, but the hospital informed the police, the officer said. 

He added that since it is an incident of accidental death, no case has been registered and proceedings have been initiated under Section 174 of the CrPC. The father of the deceased works for an electronics firm, while his wife is a homemaker, the police said.

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

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