A seven-month-old female infant has died after getting stuck in a safety fence that was erected around a bed in a house in the Maspanna village in Uva Paranagama.
According to Lankadeepa, the child had died due to injuries sustained after falling off the bed and onto the fence made out of wood.
The mother of the child who was attending to household chores had found the child fallen onto the fence and had rushed her to the hospital during which time she had succumbed to injuries.
The body of the child has been placed at the Diyatalawa Hospital for the postmortem examination, while the Uva Paranagama Police is conducting investigations. (NewsWire)