Chikkamagaluru: A 9-year-old girl, who was playing in saree swing, was choked to death after the saree got knotted around her neck in Hukkunda village here on Sunday evening. The incident came to light lately.

The girl has been identified as Nisarga (9), who was studying in the fourth standard at Hukkunda village in Aldur Hobli of the taluk.

She died of suffocation after the saree got knotted around her neck when she was playing in the saree swing on Sunday.

Aldur police have registered a case in this regard.

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Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.

The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.

"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.

The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.