2023-05-06 18:23:36
A four-year-old boy died on Saturday in Villeneuve, crushed by the loading of a shopping cart filled with DIY materials, indicates the cantonal police. He succumbed to his severe plasterboard injuries shortly after being admitted to hospital.
The accident happened shortly before 11 a.m. 144 Central was notified that a child was trapped under a load of plaster. According to the first elements of the investigation, the child had gone there in the company of two men – including his father – from the same family, who filled two carts with DIY materials. Shortly after leaving the store, a load of compressed plasterboard overturned on the victim, in circumstances still to be clarified. The staff of the sign quickly freed the boy before alerting the emergency services.
The child, a four-year-old Swiss resident in the Lausanne region, was airlifted to the CHUV, where he died shortly after from his serious injuries. The boy’s 6-year-old sister was very slightly injured when the plasterboards fell, as was one of the store’s employees who later came to the rescue.
Psychological support
The public prosecutor opened a criminal investigation. He entrusted the investigations to the territorial gendarmerie, with the technical support of the gendarmes of the traffic unit and an inspector from the scientific police brigade.
An emergency support team (ESU) moved to the scene to offer psycho-social support to those involved or affected by this tragedy.
The latter required the intervention of two ambulances, a REGA helicopter, several gendarmerie patrols, specialists from the gendarmerie traffic unit and the scientific police brigade of the security police. clarified the police.
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