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.