Four year old child loses battle

20 March 2010 07:44 am

The child who was thrown into the Kaluganga river by his mother and was in the Intensive Care Unit at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital has died according to the Hospital Director.

The four year old boy, Amila Sandaruwan Fernando, was thrown into the river, March 11, by his mother who said she could not afford to take care of him. Amila was rescued by a truck driver and had been fighting for his life at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital.

According to investigators, the child’s father had left the family and the mother made her living by selling lottery tickets.