Six-year-old boy falls to death in Bangalore mall

In a heart-rending incident, a six-year-old boy accidentally fell off the fourth floor of a shopping mall in Bangalore and succumbed to serious head injuries.

The deceased Ahan Bhandari, who went to watch a movie at the multiplex theatre at the Garuda shopping mall in Bangalore on Sunday evening along with his parents and relatives, slipped through a gap between the escalator and the metal railing before the fatal plunge 50 feet down.

A student of class I at Vidya Shilpa School in Yelahanka, Ahan was playing with a few other children on the fourth floor of the shopping mall, where the multiplex is located. A product promotion campaign taking place on the ground floor drew Ahan’s attention.

“When he was taking a peek at the campaign from the gap between the metal railing and the escalator, Ahan sought to hold on to the railings of the escalator for a better view. But, the moment he held onto the railings, the escalator dragged him up and the boy lost balance and fell down on the banners of the promotional show on the ground floor”, said an eye-witness.

Blood started flowing out of Ahan’s ears as soon as he fell down and he was rushed to a nearby hospital in an autorickshaw. A team of five specialist doctors attended on him, but the boy breathed his last later in the evening.

Doctors of Hosmat, who attended on Ahan, said the boy had sufferred severe head injuries and could not be saved despite doing their best. The boy’s father Bharat Bhandari, an industrialist, and mother were inconsolable over the loss of their son.