CHENNAI: A Class 12 girl died after a snakebite in Ennore on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Yashini (16), daughter of Babu, a construction worker, and a resident of Pasumpon Street in Jai Hind Nagar, Ernavur, near Ennor

As a house was being constructed at their residence, the family had been staying in a room in a tiled-roof house nearby. On Friday night, Yashini was sleeping on the floor when a spectacled cobra bit her twice on her right hand. After the girl cried out in pain, her parents immediately took her to the Chennai Stanley Government Hospital for treatment. However, she died without responding to treatment at around 7.45 am yesterday. Ennore police registered a case.