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Construction worker dies after wall collapses on him
View(s):A 50-year-old man was killed when a wall collapsed on him at a construction site at Galle Face, a coroner’s court inquiry was told this week.
The victim, Damith Bogahwatta a father of one, was a resident of Opanake South in Ratnapura. The incident occurred when he was welding a door on the 38th floor of a high rise building that’s coming up. A 14 ft wall next to the door had collapsed on him.
The postmortem inquiry was held at the Colombo National Hospital by Dr A Wasuthahewa who said the the man sustained injuries to brain, skull and spinal cord.