KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov 8: A six-year-old boy was killed while playing with a dangling chord at his house under Azadnagar thana in Mango.
The tragedy took place at the house of Mohammad Sabir located on road No 15 in the densely-populated Azadnagar late on Monday evening.
The victim identified as Mohammad Umar was playing with a curtain chord dangling from a door panel in his house with no one else around.
The dangling chord with which the child was playing got entangled around his neck and incidentally, the victim’s feet slipped off the floor, causing him to get strangulated.
When the family members could know about the tragedy, it was too late. But still, they rushed the critically injured to Tata Main Hospital in Bistupur — a 15 minutes ride. The doctors on emergency duty declared the child as brought dead.
Though hours have passed since the child was declared as dead, the body is still lying at the hospital’s morgue with the bereaved family members sitting at the hospital premises.
“As the family members are yet to give in writing about the circumstances causing the child’s death, the procedure for postmortem could not be followed,” said Sinha while talking to lagatar24.com.
The OC said given the circumstantial evidence, they would register a case under the Section of Unnatural Death.
Umar’s death has cast a pale of gloom in the locality, leading a large number of local residents to the Tata Main Hospital for having a glimpse of the child and also to express their condolences.
