City Hall: Nets to be installed to ‘catch’ thrown items

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) plans to install nets at People’s Housing Projects (PPR) to reduce the number of accidents caused by residents throwing items from the upper floors.

The move was announced following the death of S. Sathiwaran, 15, a Form Three student of SMK La Salle in Petaling Jaya, who was killed when a chair, thrown from an upper floor at the Seri Pantai People’s Housing Project in Pantai Dalam here, struck his head on Monday.

DBKL housing management and community development director Wan Mohammad Ghazali Nor said the plan would be implemented soon, with PPR areas identified as “black areas” to be given attention first.

At the moment, there are 72 PPRs in the city, and 13 of them have been identified as “black areas”.

“What happened (on Monday) involved security aspects. Hence, we will be installing nets to shield passers-by from being hit by objects thrown from the upper floors,” he said at the Seri Pantai PPR yesterday.

He said action, including sealing PPR units, would be taken against residents who threw items from the upper floors.

Wan Mohammad said DBKL had issued notices to PPR units on the matter but they were ignored.

He said City Hall would engage residents associations and government agencies, as well as police, on conducting community policing in the black areas.