A girl student studying in Class V was electrocuted in a lower primary school in Kurkunda village of Sindhanur taluk, Raichur district, on Friday.
The victim was identified as 11-year-old Tanushree.
Sources in the police said that she was electrocuted when she tried to switch on a water filter around 12.30 p.m.
She was immediately taken to a local doctor. Considering the seriousness, she was referred from there to the Taluk Hospital.
She died on the government hospital premises in Sindhanur while being shifted, the sources added.
