Chennai: A 16-year-old school student playing cricket with his friends on Sunday died in an accident as he chased a ball in K.K. Nagar. The deceased was identified as S. Vignesh, a plus-1 student of a school in West Mambalam.
Vignesh, son of daily wage worker Sukumar, of Kannikapuram K.K. Nagar, was playing cricket with his friends on Sunday when the incident happened.
According to the police, it was usual for him to play cricket with friends during holidays and on Sunday he was playing cricket at a corporation school ground located in sector 14 in K.K. Nagar.
He was chasing a ball hit by the batsman when the fatal accident happened. The ball went over a compound wall and he had scaled the wall to take the ball. He was returning to the ground after fetching the ball when he slipped and fell on a sharp pole of a grill on the wall of the playground. The sharp grill went through his left abdomen and he started bleeding profusely.
“One side of the ground has a 12 -foot high brick wall. The rest of the ground was enclosed by an 8-foot tall iron grill. The accident happened at the place where the wall and grill join. The boys would usually scale over the wall to fetch the ball. On Sunday afternoon, at around 2 pm, he was scaling the wall to return to the ground by swinging on a bamboo tree when he slipped and fell on the sharp edge of the adjacent grill,” police said.
His friends and others took him immediately to a hospital in K.K. Nagar. The medical team there, after checking his condition, advised the family to take him to Royapettah general hospital for further treatment because his condition was critical. But at Royapettah GH Vignesh died without responding to treatment. K.K. Nagar police said that they had registered a case and are probing the incident.
