Mystery surrounds little girl’s fall into a garden well
The body of a seven- year- old girl was recovered on Monday after noon (30) from a garden well at Gramodaya Mawatha in Panadura. The victim, Amisha Nethmini Ranasinghe was a Grade Two student of the Mahabellana Primary School. On Monday morning the little girl who retur ned home with her mother after visiting her grandmother at Wadduwa had gone to bring one of the house keys left at a neighbouring house. Meanwhile her mother who had a duplicate key opened the door and entered the house. However when the girl was late she went in search of her to the neighbouring house to find that the girl had not come there. When neighbours searched for the girl in the surrounding area they found that she had fallen into a well.
She was rushed to Panadura Base Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Relatives said it was surprising how she fell into the well surrounded by a protective a wall that was about a foot above the girl’s head
. They also said she had not reason to go to the well where there was no bucket to draw water. A senior police official said the cause of the death could be decided only after the postmortem examination which was to be held yesterday at the Panadura Base Hospital. Panadura police are conducting inquiries.
Relatives cannot understand how the girl fell into the well surrounded by a protective a wall that was about a foot above the
girl’s head