A seven-year-old boy has been killed in a freak accident, when a falling tree branch hit him while at school in KZN.
|||A seven-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday when he was crushed by a falling tree branch outside the RA Padayachee Primary School at Shaka’s Head on the North Coast.
Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha said the incident occurred at about noon, just after school closed.
Botha said reports from the scene indicated that Siyanda Khumbule was standing under a large tree when a branch fell from about 10m and crushed him.
“Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene and found the child lying on the ground unresponsive,” he said.
According to a police source, Siyanda suffered severe head injuries.
Police spokesman Captain Thulani Zwane said an inquest docket had been opened.