Toddler dies after falling 50ft from Bengaluru's Namma Metro escalator

BENGALURU: Hasini , one-and-half years old girl who fell from Namma Metro 's escalator at Sriram Puram station on Sunday night died on Monday morning at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH)."She finally succumbed to head injury," said Dr Mahantesh M, resident medical officer at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health.The girl child fell from an escalator at the Srirampura Metro station in West Bengaluru on Sunday night and landed on the road 50 feet below, suffering grievous injuries on her head.She was immediately rushed to government run KC General hospital and was referred to Nimhans from there for lack of spare ventilator. At Nimhans again she was referred to Indira Gandhi Institute of child health, late night.Police sources said the child was accompanied by her grandfather and grandmother. The elderly man was carrying the child in his right arm.