Boy thrown on road and run over, dies

A.P. Insaf, a 14-year-old Grade 9 student of Alim Appa Road, Kattankudy, who was seriously injured in a road accident, succumbed to his injuries at the Batticaloa Hospital on July 30.

Insaf, who was on his way to school in the morning to sit for the second term test, was run over by a passing three-wheeler after he fell on the road when a van door suddenly opened by the driver who had parked his vehicle on the roadside, struck him.

He was rushed to the Batticaloa Hospital and admitted to the ICU in a serious condition.

The van driver, said to be a principal of a school in Valachchenai, and the three-wheeler driver have been taken into custody by the Kattankudy Police who are investigating the accident.