A 14-year-old Russian model, Vlada Dzyuba, died from exhaustion after a 12-hour fashion show during her three-month modelling assignment inShanghai, China.
She was said to have collapsed on stage and died two days after.
It has been claimed the teen was suffering from chronic meningitis and had been too afraid to seek medical treatment.
Moscow is set to demand an explanation over the conditions Vlada was living in during her time working in Asia.
The Siberian Times reported that the girl’s temperature soared moments before she was set to go out on the catwalk.
Her devastated mother Oksana said: “She was calling me, saying ‘Mama, I am so tired. I so much want to sleep’.
“It must have been the very beginning of the illness. And then her temperature shot up.
“I didn’t sleep myself and was calling her constantly, begging her to go to the hospital.”
The head of the Perm modelling agency behind her trip, Elvira Zaitseva, said: “No-one expected it to lead to such consequences.
“We are now reaping what we have sown.”
She admitted not checking Vlada’s contract and if she had proper medical insurance.
Kremlin human rights ombudsman in Perm, Pavel Mikov, is personally investigating the girl’s death.
