The 9-year-old shivam and his friends were rehearsing for the Independence day celebrations .On the final scene of the play depicting Bhagat Singh’s hanging, Shivam found a rope, tied a noose around his neck and played the part. But his feet slipped off the stool he was propping himself up on. He strugg;ed to breathe as his friends thought he was just acting.
He died within minutes.
On Thursday afternoon, at Babat village in Up’s Budaun . Shivam was home with his younger brother and sister, and his parents were out working on their paddy fields.
As Independence day was approaching “They decided to put on a play for the occasion,” Shivam’s uncle Vinod Kumar said.
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