Boy, 15, slips, falls to death from 5th floor at Mannady

Boy, 15, slips, falls to death from 5th floor at Mannady

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:  22.07.2020

A 15-year-old boy fell from the fifth floor of an under construction building at Mannady and died on Tuesday evening, police said.

Police have identified the boy as Z Riaz.

They said Riaz would help his father Zakir sell tea as the latter lost his job of a car driver due to the lockdown.

Around 4.30pm on Tuesday, Riaz came to supply tea to workers involved in the construction of a six-storey building on Aranmanaikaran Street at Mannady.

When he was going down the stairs from the fifth floor, he slipped and fell into the space meant for elevator. He died on the spot. On information, the Esplanade police recovered his body and sent it for postmortem. A case has been registered and further investigation is on.

The boy was going down the stairs from the 5th floor when he slipped and fell into the space meant for elevator. He died on the spot