Uttar Pradesh / 13-yr-old girl falls to death from 9th floor while trying to save her puppy in UP

Ghaziabad: In a tragic incident, a 13-year-old girl fell to her death along with her puppy from the ninth-floor terrace of a residential building in Kavinagar area in Ghaziabad while trying to save the pet, police said.

Jyotsana, a student of class seven and the only child of her parents, was playing on the terrace with her pet puppy when the incident occurred on Wednesday.

The pet's neck got stuck between the iron grills. Jyotsana tried to save the puppy but lost her balance and fell to the ground with the pet.

A security guard and other residents found the girl lying in a pool of blood. She was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where the doctors pronounced her brought dead, they said, adding the pet also died.

DSP Anshu Jain said an autopsy was not conducted following a request from the deceased girl's family.

The girl's father Lalit Mohan Sharma is a manager with a private company.