Young man dies when he had fallen trying to dig a 50 feet ditch inside the house
In the Kataragama Kandasurindugama area a youngster had died when earth had fallen on him when trying to dig a ditch 50 feet in deep inside his own house.
It is reported that in the Kataragama Kandasuridugama Mawatha in the Kandasuridugama grama sewa division a youth had attempted secretly to dig a ditch 50 feet deep and
tried to make a tunnel through it.He had died while trying to attempt this deed.
tried to make a tunnel through it.He had died while trying to attempt this deed.
The youth who had died in this manner is a person who had come from the Haldemulla areaRanathunga Mudiyanselage Pradeep Seneviratne a 30 year old person the police has revealed.
It is reported that earlier also he had attempted a similar exercise from the bed room of the house.This had been stopped by the police according to the police officers.
However it is reportesd that he had once again very shrewdly by closing the doors of the house had attempted the same exercise in a room 12'-12' had completed the ditch 50 feet in depth.The neighbours say that this excavation had been made in search treasures.
The body of the dead person has been kept at the Kataragama hospital.The police is to make a postmortem examination.