Daijiworld Media Network - Madikeri (SP)

Madikeri, Apr 4: In an incident which occurred at Sulugalale Colony near Shanivarsanthe in Kodagu district on Sunday April 2 , a boy died after the compound wall of a house crashed on him. The boy who succumbed to injuries sustained in the accident has been identified as Charan (6), son of Praveen, a local.

Charan was one among the six-year-old twin children of Praveen and Jyoti, both residents of Sulugalale colony. On Sunday morning, the grandmother was serving lunch to both of them inside the house when Charan heard a tractor coming near his home.  He rushed out to see a tractor that had brought crushed stone to the site located opposite his home, where a new house is being constructed. Charan was watching the tractor by standing on his side of the compound wall. The driver of the tractor lost control over the vehicle after which it hit the compound wall adjacent to which the boy was standing.

As the  compound wall crashed in a heap on the six-year-old boy, he suffered grave injuries. Immediately the neighbours took him to the health centre at Shanivarsanthe but the boy, who had suffered severe head  injuries, had already died.

A case about this incident was filed in Shanivarsanthe police station. Somwarpet police circle inspector, Parashivamurthy visited the spot.