Railways provides Rs. 500,000 over youth’s train fall death

The Railways Department has provided Rs.500,000 to the next of kin of 19-year-old Dinuth Induwara Perera who died in an accident while travelling on the roof of a crowded train on Tuesday, during a strike launched by some railway employees.

Although there is no legal basis for compensation related to this kind of accident, according to the request of Transport, Highways and Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardhana,after informing the President’s Secretary and the Ministry’s Secretary and subject to Cabinet approval, this amount will be given to family members of the deceased young man, a spokesperson for the Railway Department said

Perera who studied at Moratuwa Technical College, residing in Moragoda, Gampaha, died from the incident.The railway stations across the country remained full of passengers last Sunday and Monday, due to the strike started by the officers of the Railway Department’s Locomotive Operating Engineers’ Union.

The deceased had gone to the Gampaha Railway Station with his father to go to the Moratuwa Technical College on September 12.

Since it was morning office time, there were a large number of passengers at Gampaha Railway station at that time, and after the train from Kandy to Colombo was stopped at Gampaha Railway station, a huge number of passengers boarded the train.

In the meantime, the dead youth and several others got on the roof of the train and his head had hit the railway bridge at the Horape Railway station, the next station after the Ragama Railway station. The youth had fallen from the roof of the train.

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