A one-year-old boy died after he came in the path of falling bricks at a construction site in Royapettah on Tuesday.
According to Royapettah police, the victim, A. Dakshin was the son of Arif (32), a Nepali national, who was a security guard at the site where work on a three-storey building is in progress. He was residing with his family on the site.
Around 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the child was playing on the site, when a pile of bricks assembled on the third floor of the building came crashing down. Dakshin suffered severe injuries on his head and fell unconscious. His father and some other workers at the site rushed the boy to the Government Children’s hospital in Egmore, where doctors examined him and referred him to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.
However, Dakshin failed to respond to treatment and succumbed around 11.45 p.m. The Royapettah police have registered a case of unnatural death and are probing.
