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Two youngsters face tragic deaths from unfortunate accidents
View(s):Two young girls faced untimely deaths this week from head injuries due to freak accidents.
One of the deaths took place on Monday, when a three-year-old girl who was playing with two others, was critically injured after a bed railing which was slanted over a wall, fell on top of her and injured her head.
The incident occurred at Udawalawe in South Ella and the deceased girl was identified as Gayumi Nishani Pathirana. She had been admitted to the Karapitiya Hospital last Sunday after the incident and succumbed to her injuries on Monday.
The mother of the deceased three-year-old told the Coroner’s Courts that a bed railing belonging to a neighbouring house had been kept in their residence due to almsgiving being held at the neighbour’s house.
She said the railing was slanted over to a wall of their house as there was no other place to keep it, and when her daughter and the other children were playing, the railing had fallen on her daughter after she had touched it.
Dr. U.G.G. Perera, the Judicial Medical Officer who conducted the post mortem, said the death of the child was due to a head injury and profuse bleeding. City Coroner B.N.G. Karunanathilake who conducted the Coroner’s Court inquiry also said the death was due to a head injury.
In a separate incident, a one and a half year old girl had died this Monday after an eight kilo weighing jackfruit had fallen on her head.
The deceased girl was identified as Deveni Dishara Samarasekara, a resident of Akmeemana in the Galle district.
This incident had occurred as the girl’s mother, identified as Sevika Mihirani Samarasekara, had come to an adjoining house to attend a funeral last Sunday.
She told the Coroner’s Courts that she decided to step outside the funeral house as the child was feeling warm, and she stood under a jackfruit tree with the young girl in her arms.
Then a jackfruit had suddenly fallen on her arm, hitting her daughter and injuring the child’s face.
Ms. Samarasekara said that daughter was admitted to Karapitiya Hospital and was receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit for more than three days, before she succumbed to her injuries.
Dr. Perera, who conducted the post mortem inquiry once again, said the child had passed away due to head and skull damage from the blow of the falling jackfruit. City Coroner B.N.G Karunathilake declared the young girl’s demise as an accidental death.
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