Student undergoing training electrocuted

FRIDAY, 25 JANUARY 2013

A 19 year old student undergoing training in residential training center of Inamaluwa youth brigade at Dambulla has died of electrocution. The student, P.K.G. Bandara, a resident of Bambaragaswewa in Galewela died while being admitted to Dambulla Base Hospital yesterday (24th) at 10.00 a.m.

Instructions had been given by an Army officer in duty to cut down a bamboo bush. Six students including the student who was electrocuted had been assigned the work.  When the bamboo tree was cut it had got entangled with a high tension wire and fallen on the student. Two other students in the group too had been electrocuted.

The student ahd been taken to the hospital in a three wheeler. The student had attended the training sessions in the camp while waiting for his A/L results.

Sigiriya police is conducting investigations.