Student dies in tragic accident
By Menaka Indrakumar and Zahrah Imitias- January 22, 2014
An nine-year-old student died yesterday after getting wedged between a metal roller and a wall. The victim, a student of Ananda College, Colombo has been identified as Senetha Wijesinghe.
According to the police, the child had been playing with a couple of other students at the time of the incident.
The child was pronounced dead upon admission to the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital.
According to the police, the victim is a resident of Malabe and the body is kept at the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital for further examination.
Ananda College Principal, Kithsiri Liyanagamage, said rollers were brought because the school was having some construction work going on. It had been left at the side of the playground where children are not supposed to play. "I spoke to the master-in-charge in the morning, Ruwan Pathirana, and everything was perfectly fine. Later, we found out that some children had been playing with the roller, which had been placed on a slope, thus setting it in motion when the children were playing with it," he said.
By Menaka Indrakumar and Zahrah Imitias- January 22, 2014
An nine-year-old student died yesterday after getting wedged between a metal roller and a wall. The victim, a student of Ananda College, Colombo has been identified as Senetha Wijesinghe.
According to the police, the child had been playing with a couple of other students at the time of the incident.
The child was pronounced dead upon admission to the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital.
According to the police, the victim is a resident of Malabe and the body is kept at the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital for further examination.
Ananda College Principal, Kithsiri Liyanagamage, said rollers were brought because the school was having some construction work going on. It had been left at the side of the playground where children are not supposed to play. "I spoke to the master-in-charge in the morning, Ruwan Pathirana, and everything was perfectly fine. Later, we found out that some children had been playing with the roller, which had been placed on a slope, thus setting it in motion when the children were playing with it," he said.
