Russian child model, 14, who worked herself to death in China was paid just £6.30 a DAY and her parents 'can't afford' to fly her body home

Vlada Dzyuba was found to be suffering from 'utter exhaustion' and chronic meningitis following a gruelling 13-hour Asian fashion show in Shanghai

A top Russian child model who died in China from 'exhaustion' made just £6.30 a day after paying her air fares, hotels and food, it was claimed today.

Vlada Dzyuba, 14, from the industrial city of Perm in Russia, missed school to work on catwalks on a 'three month contract' to realise her dream of becoming a supermodel.But the teenager died from 'utter exhaustion' and meningitis as she waited for her latest assignment thousands of miles from home in China.

Her parents say they 'cannot afford' to fly her body home and she is expected to be cremated with her ashes returned to her homeland after a month.

Her case raises acute fears over the exploitation of children by the glamour industry.

Miss Dzyuba collapsed and fell into a coma moments before she was due to step out onto the catwalk in Shanghai (pictured, during a show in the city)

A new Beijing account of her death says she died from 'septicopyemia' - blood poisoning with 'multiple visceral organs damaged, liver dysfunction and renal insufficiency'.

Official newspaper The Global Times reported she died of 'multiple organ dysfunction syndrome', citing medical records, but it is understood tests are still being conducted.

Before she went into a coma she had told her mother back home in Russia by phone that she was exhausted.

Vlada is reported to have attended a 13-hour jewellery modelling shoot before collapsing after becoming the latest Russian teenage model to travel to China.

Her parents fear they 'cannot afford' to fly her body home. Russian diplomats have asked that a cremation is delayed until her mother - Oksana - arrives in China.

On an earlier contract in China, Vlada received just £6.30 a day for her catwalk appearances once her air fares, hotels, food and insurance had been taken from her earnings, reported the Russian media.

The girl was 'scared' to seek hospital treatment because she did not have medical insurance on her latest trip to China, say the media citing her mother.

It has been claimed Miss Dzyuba was on a 'slave labour' contract without medical insurance and had been too 'scared' to seek hospital treatment.

The Chinese modelling agency involved in her latest trip has denied overworking her - but new facts have emerged that raise concern over the working conditions of a girl who was not accompanied by her mother.