India, Oct. 1 -- Two days after a 4-year-old girl from Dombivli died due to a snake bite on Sunday, her 24-year-old aunt too succumbed to the venomous bite on Tuesday. The duo were bitten by a snake on Sunday and were rushed to the Shastri Nagar Hospital, operated by the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).

According to the police, the child, Pranavi Bhoir, died hours after reaching the hospital, while her aunt, Shruti Thakur, slipped into a coma and passed away on Tuesday. Following Thakur's death, the victims' family protested outside the cabin of the health officer Dr Deepa Shukla, at the KDMC headquarters, blaming the hospital's negligence for the two deaths.

The family claimed that the hospital staff had delayed treating t...