Sujith 
Chennai

5-yr-old boy’s head gets stuck in plastic bag, dies

A five-year-old boy died in a freak accident at Tiruttani on Thursday after he covered up his face with a plastic carry bag and swooned after he failed to remove it on time. The plastic carry bag got locked around his neck as he struggled to remove it.

migrator

Chennai

The police identified the deceased as B Sujith, a resident of Velancherry near Tiruttani. He was playing with his elder sister Dhanam. No adult was present at home when the incident happened.

Dhanam was watching the television and failed to notice her brother lying unconscious. After a while, their mother Sangeetha returned home after a visit to a relative’s house, only to find her son lying fainted with his head trapped inside the plastic cover.

Though she rushed him to a nearby private hospital, the doctors declared the child brought dead on arrival. Later the body was sent to the Government Hospital at Tiruttani for autopsy.

Police said Sujith’s father Boobalan, 35, is employed at a private firm.

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