The Kahathuduwa Police stated yesterday (15) that an Indian youth who was seriously injured by the spilling of molten iron liquid from an iron smelting boiler pit inside an iron wire producing factory on Diyagama Road, Kahathuduwa, died ten days later.
The deceased was a 22-year-old youth named Deepak Kumar, a resident of Dawarikanathpur, Bihar, India.
The youth had died while receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of the Kalubowila Teaching Hospital.
The deceased youth had come to the factory for the night shift on August 5 and while he was pouring iron into the furnace along with six other Indians, they were injured due to an unexpected iron liquid spilling out of the furnace. All of them were admitted to the Wethara Hospital initially and transferred to Kalubowila Hospital for further treatment.
At the time of the accident, about three-fourths of the iron had been put in the boiler pit and the iron was turning into a liquid at a temperature of 1,400 degrees centigrade, Police investigations revealed.
Police say that all parts of their bodies except their face and head were severely burnt by the hot iron liquid.
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