India, Aug. 22 -- An eight-year-old girl whose head was stuck in the grill of her classroom's window for 18 hours in Odisha's Keonjhar was finally rescued on Friday morning when a staffer found her, people familiar with the matter said.

The girl had dozed off on one of the benches in the classroom on Thursday afternoon. When she woke up, she found herself locked up in the room and tried to squeeze through the iron grills on the window, but her head got stuck.

Keonjhar district collector Vishal Singh suspended school headmaster Gourahari Mahanta for dereliction of duty.

School teachers said the child, Jyotsna Dehury, was feeling sleepy late and lay down on one of the benches in her classroom on Thursday afternoon. She was soon fast asle...