10 year old girl dies ... trapped in current when returning home from scholarship class!

10 year old girl dies ...

trapped in current when returning home from scholarship class!

A 10 year old schoolgirl having attended a scholarship class was returning home in the company of her mother and was in the process of crossing a stream day-before-yesterday (12) evening when they were caught in a surge of water which occured with torrential rains coming down

on Egodawela, Medawelagama in Passara and as a result of it the schoolgirl had died while the mother who sustained injuries had been warded at hospital, it is reported.

On the day of the incident, heavy rains had come down all of a sudden when the two of them had alighted from the bus in the rains and had been in the process of heading towards their home in Egodawelagama, Meddegama. The mother had then carried the daughter and was getting across a stream in Egodawela area when the current at an unanticipated moment had rushed towards them most suddenly and both mother and daughter had been drifted away, it was revealed at investigations.

Under these circumstances the two of them were almost suffocated with water and the mother who had been cuddling her daughter was stuck in a reef when villagers had rescued them and had them admitted them to Passara district hospital where the daughter passed away. The mother, H.M. Premawathi (45) who faced injury is under treatment in hospital. It is 10 year old Deenithi Thisarani who was schooling in Medawelagama Madhya Maha Vidyalaya who had passed away in this manner. The body of deceased schoolgirl is lying at Passara district hospital while the injured mother is receiving treatment in ward 5 of Passara district hospital.