NIBONG TEBAL: A family's bid to rescue a 12-year-old girl found hanged at their home in Changkat, near here proved to be futile.

They cut the blanket that gripped her neck and rushed the Year Six pupil to the nearest hospital in Sungai Bakap soon after the 1.40pm incident on Saturday.

However, the doctors there decided that S. Subashini be transferred to the Seberang Jaya Hospital, where she died at 4.05am yesterday.

Her grieving father, G. Sivakumar, 36, said his daughter was still alive when family members rushed her from their Penang Water Supply Corporation quarters to the Sungai Bakap Hospital.

He was away at work at the time of the incident.

The father of five daughters, aged three to 13, said Subashini had called for her mother when he visited her at the hospital.

He alleged that when she was transferred to the Seberang Jaya Hospital, the doctors there admitted her to the general ward despite her condition. He claimed that they had neglected to ward her in the intensive care unit.

Recapping the events that led to her death, Sivakumar said his daughter, who studied at a Tamil primary school, had been disappointed that she had not obtained the expected results in the UPSR examination.

"She had been crying since obtaining her results on Thursday," sobbed Sivakumar, who said his daughter was a hardworking and bright pupil.

"I do not know what went wrong," he added, saying that while she was confident of scoring at least 4As in the examination, the results showed that Subashini had only obtained 4Bs, 2Cs and 1D.

At about 1pm on Saturday, while the girl and other members of the family were chatting in the living room, Subashini got up and went upstairs, carrying a chair.

After about 40 minutes, when she did not return to join the family, one of her sisters went upstairs and found the girl with a blanket tied around her neck.

The young girl was buried at the Nibong Tebal Hindu cemetery here at 3pm yesterday.

South Seberang Prai OCPD Supt Shafien Mamat, when contacted, confirmed the incident and said police were investigating the case.

A hospital spokesman, when contacted, said Subashini was admitted to the high dependency ward and she was critically injured when she was brought in.

"The doctors did their best to save her but unfortunately she died," she added.