12-year-old girl walking to Chhattisgarh from Telangana dies | ABP Uncut

A 12-year-old girl died while making a 150-kilometre trip on foot from a village in Telangana to her native Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh. According to reports, the girl had left her home in the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh and joined her relatives in Kannaiguda village in Telangana to work in chilli farms. Due to the Lockdown she and a group of people who worked in the fields decided to walk back home and started their journey on April 15. The group walked for over three days covering 150 km. Reports say the group did not take the road as it was blocked due to the lockdown, instead, they travelled through dense jungles having presence of Maoists. On April 18, the teenager died of exhaustion and electrolyte imbalance. At the time of her death, she was just 50 km away from her home.