Young boy accompanying elder sister becomes prey to hit-and-go driver!

Young boy accompanying elder sister becomes prey to hit-and-go driver!

A 13 year old young boy breathed his last most tragically day-before-yesterday at Palaviya Thalgaskanda area on Puttalam - Colombo road.

Having gone to to a shop and when returning home in the company of a relative girl walking along the pavement, a van which was travelling at a hectic speed happened to run over the boy while the

sister who was by his side had struck the van and had got thrown away. At that moment the driver had tried to beat a retreat even without caring to see who had got knocked down. However, eye-witnesses had given pursuit to the van concerned and had blocked the van and handed over the driver to police.

It was one Asidu Dananjaya living Palaviya wanniya who thus died from this incident. It was his aunt's daughter who had been in his company when the accident took place. Final rites of the victim is to be held on the 10th. The driver responsible for the death and had tried to flee has been taken into custody by Puttalam police and is expected to be produced before court. The scene of the said accident could be noted on CCTV cameras fixed at the shop where the two of them visited some moments earlier as seen below