KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Jan 2018:
The father of 15-year-old S. Sathiswaran – who was killed by an office chair reportedly hurled from an upper floor of a multi-storey flat at the Seri Pantai People’s Housing Project in Pantai Dalam here last night – wants justice for his son.
Security guard K. Sathiasilan, 45, urged the police to arrest the culprit and bring the individual to justice.
“This was the first time that such an incident had occurred at the 21-storey flats.”
The deceased’s mother, M. S. Kasthuribai, 45, said – having witnessed the incident right before her eyes – was something that was too much to bear.
“I am still traumatised after having seen my son lying in blood following the incident,” said the cook.
Kasthuribai said the incident occurred when she and Sathiswaran were returning home after visiting her disabled brother nearby.
“At that time, I told my son to buy a RM10 prepaid card at a sundry shop on the ground floor. Not too long after that, my son emerged from the shop and told me the prepaid cards were sold out.
“At that juncture, a falling office chair struck my son’s head.”
She asked passers-by for help and called her husband before taking Sathiswaran to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead.
Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur CID chief SAC Rusdi Mohd Isa said the police were in the midst of identifying the individual who hurled the chair from an upper floor of the multi-storey flats.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will impound the People’s Housing Project (PPR) units if the residents are found to have been littering or throwing any object from upper floors.
Community Development and Urban Wellbeing Department director Wan Mohammad Ghazali Nor said DBKL had issued notices over the matter to all PPR residents in the federal capital before this – as such an issue was not new.
“We are aware of such incidents (littering), and that it cannot be left unaddressed. Hence, the DBKL has issued notices to all PPR residents to take note on the cases of littering and throwing out of objects.
“After this, DBKL will reissue stern warnings… DBKL will detect the owner of the PPR unit and take a stern action to the extent of impounding the house, if such a case recurs.”
He said DBKL would also install safety nets at each PPR block the soonest possible – to minimise the risk of accident due to the residents’ habit of hurling things out.
“At the moment, there are 72 PPRs and public housing (projects) in the federal capital with 13 of them have been identified by the police as (littering) ‘hotspots’.
“The installation of safety nets can protect the public from being hit by trash or any object from above.”
– Bernama