3-yr-old boy dies in roof collapse

Krishnagiri: A three-year-old boy was killed after tiled-roof of a house collapsed near Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Friday night. His mother and aunt were injured in the incident.
The boy, P Arunkumar, of Sigalarahalli village, his mother Poo Lakshmi, 28, and aunt Saradha, 31, went to bed after dinner on Friday night. “Within a few hours, the roof of the house collapsed and fell on them. The boy died on the spot,” an officer attached with the Hosur police said.
The neigbhours admitted Lakshmi and Saradha to the Hosur government hospital. The police retrieved the boy’s corpse and sent it to the hospital for postmortem.
Meanwhile, revenue officials visited Sigalarahalli village after the incident and inspected other houses. “Of the 76 houses in the area, many are in a bad condition. So we shifted families living there to the nearby government school,” a revenue official said.tnn