The Kalutara South Police said the Kalutara Municipal Council’s Fire Department has managed to rescue a seven-year-old girl trapped for about 30 minutes between two walls at the Kalutara Katukurunda Roman Catholic School.
The girl lives in the Kalutara Katukurunda Kalamulla area and is a second year student at the school.
After being informed by the Kalutara Disaster Management Assistant Director Col. Aravinda Amarasekara and the Kalutara South Police that a girl was trapped between two walls of the school, six fire fighters reached the scene in an emergency ambulance.
Chief Fire Officer O.V. I. P. Lakshan said that the girl was trapped between the toilet wall and the boundary wall of the school, and an emergency ambulance from the Fire Department of the Kalutara Municipality arrived and saved the girl by pushing the two walls with the help of a sophisticated device using hydraulic air pressure.
The Police said that a group of Army soldiers from the Kalutara Disaster Management Unit had also reached the spot for assistance. Firemen D.I.C. Kumara, K.A.C. Jayanath, A.L.E.P. Perera, M.D. Sameera and W.B.R.J. Perera were part of the rescue operation.