Jabalpur, Oct 8 (PTI) A 13-year-old boy died on Friday after a slab on the top of a window of an under-construction hall in the campus of a school in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district fell on him, police said.

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The incident took place in a government-run primary integrated school in Ghughari village, some 50 kilometres from the district headquarters, under Belkhada police station limits.

"Class VII student Kartik died when the slab above a window fell on him while he was playing outside an under-construction hall. He was rushed to a hospital in Jabalpur but died while undergoing treatment," said Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) SS Baghel.

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