2 March 2024 12:56 am Views - 108
By Buddhika Kumarasiri
A month-old infant child that slipped off mother’s lap and fell on the road from a moving trishaw at Gurumetiya in Kitulgala on Colombo – Hatton highway had miraculously escaped unhurt.
The child’s mother with several others from Negombo had been on their way back after a trip to Nuwara Eliya and Kataragama on Thursday night by trishaw and on the way the child had fallen off when the mother was asleep.
However, a group of individuals in a motorcar that followed the trishaw had noticed the child fallen on the road and taken the child to Kitulgala Police.
The police had immediately rushed the child to Kitulgala Hospital. Meanwhile, the child’s mother and others in the group who came in search of the child, learnt from the residents of the area that he was admitted to the hospital had proceeded to Kitulgala Hospital. The child, under the care of his mother, was transferred to Karawanella Base Hospital.
However, the doctors had examined the child to find him unhurt.