Bahrain boy dies after falling off a building

Manama : A Bahraini boy died yesterday after falling off an under-construction building in the Northern Governorate on Thursday.

Karrar Abbas, 8, was pronounced dead at the Intensive Care Unit in Salmaniya Medical Complex yesterday.

He succumbed to the critical injuries he sustained after falling off the building in Shakhoora village near Budaiya Highway on Thursday.

His body was buried yesterday morning in Sheikh Maitham Al Bahrani Graveyard in Um Al Hassam, where scores of citizens, relatives and family friends joined the funeral.