3 Girls Die, 1 Critical After Snake Bites 6 At Maharashtra School Hostel

The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, when a snake bit six students sleeping in the hostel of a primary-secondary residential school in Gadchiroli's Japtalai village.

A venomous snake bit the minors while they were sleeping on the floor in the school's hostel; three of them, aged 8, 12 and 14, died; three other girls, in the age group of 11 to 14, were receiving treatment for snakebite