India, Oct. 9 -- A doctor at the Government Taluk Hospital in Thamarassery in Kozhikode district was hospitalised on Wednesday after being attacked with a sharp weapon by the father of a nine-year-old girl who died due to suspected amoebic meningoencephalitis in August.

Eyewitnesses said KV Sunoop, the father of the girl, burst into the office of the medical superintendent at the taluk hospital on Wednesday afternoon and proceeded to hit Dr Vipin on the head with a machete. The doctor was perusing some lab reports of another patient with the health personnel inside the superintendent's office when the attack happened.

A lab technician at the hospital who saw the attack told reporters, "The accused shouted that the doctor caused his daug...