Kandy Times

Mobile phone talk costs female her life

By L.B. Senaratne

Talking on a mobile phone while walking along the railway line cost a twenty-year-old female from Walapane her life.

The deceased Shyamali Priangika had been walking along the railway near the Mulgampola signals while speaking over her cellular phone when the train proceeding to Colombo had knocked her down.

Witnesses told the inquirer that some of them had shouted to her of the on coming train, but she had not appeared to have heard their warnings.

Kandy Inquirer into Sudden Deaths, Attorney-at-Law S. Piyatilleke returned a verdict of accidental death. Police Sgt S. George of Kandy Minor Offences Branch conducted the inquiry.

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