Fall proves fatal

A seven-year-old boy died after he fell off a concrete base in a newly constructed house, in the Kanthathoduwawa area of the Mundel Police division last Saturday evening.

Mundel Police say that the victim was identified as M.K. Sasinthu Aloka, a Grade 2 student of the area school. The boy went to a neighbour's house to play with a friend when the accident occurred. He was taken to the Mundel Hospital, and died while a short while later.

The body was kept at Puttalam Hospital for postmortem which was scheduled to be held yesterday. Mundel Police are investigating.