Chair thrown from Pantai Dalam flats kills boy

KUALA LUMPUR: A 15-year-old boy died when a chair, thrown from an upper floor of a block of People's Housing Programme (PPR) apartments in Pantai Dalam, struck his head last night.

The victim, identified as S. Sathiwaran, a Form Three student of SMK La Salle in Petaling Jaya, was accompanying his mother, 45, who had just finished grocery shopping.

When the duo was about to enter their apartment block at about 8.30pm, an office chair, believed to have been thrown from one of the upper floors, crashed down and struck Sathiwaran.

Brickfields district police chief ACP Ruslan Khalid confirmed the incident.

He said the boy sustained severe injuries as a result of the incident.

Sources said the boy died at the scene while the victim's mother was fortunate not to have also been struck by the chair.

The case is being investigated under Section 304 A of the Penal Code for causing death by negligence and an investigation is ongoing to find the culprit involved in the incident.