Puri, Aug. 3 -- The brother of the minor girl who succumbed to injuries after allegedly being set on fire by miscreants expressed grief over her demise and said that she was "fine" till Saturday morning.

Speaking to ANI on Sunday, the victim's brother said, "Yesterday morning we were told she was talking and was fine. We don't know what happened in the afternoon, she was in a lot of discomfort and was put on a ventilator. By the evening, we had lost her."

Mourning her death, he said that the family had hoped she would return home.

"We cannot even express the extent of our grief. She was a full-of-life 15-year-old girl. She has struggled a lot; she stayed in the hospital for 14 days. We always had hope that even though it would take tim...