12-year-old boy dies after shawl tightened around neck while playing, grandfather suffers cardiac arrest and dies

KOZHIKODE: A twelve-year-old died here after a shawl tightened around his neck while playing. The boy's grandfather who was a witness to this collapsed and died due to cardiac arrest. Mohammad Basim, son of Abdul Jaleel, has been identified as the 12-year-old boy. His grandfather Alavi Haji (68) died due to cardiac arrest.

The incident was around 11 am. Basim fell unconscious after the shawl tightened around his neck and was rushed to Thamarassery taluk hospital. Alavi Haji started feeling physical discomfort on witnessing it and on hearing the death pf his grandchild, he collapsed and died.

Alavi Haji was also taken to the Thamarassery taluk hospital but had died by then.