SAFETY nets are being installed at People’s Housing Project (PPR) flats after a chair flung from the 21st floor of a low-cost flat in Kuala Lumpur killed a schoolboy.

Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said City Hall would fix the nets at 494 PPR flats in the capital.

 He said 80,000 units were involved.

“This is the first time someone has died from a falling object thrown from higher floors. This has happened so many times before.

“We will also conduct briefings for residents to educate them on what they should and should not do at these flats,” he said today after a function in the capital.

The death of 14-year-old Satishwaran Sathiasilan has been classified as murder.

Kuala Lumpur CID chief Rusdi Mohd Isa said the case, which was initially classified as manslaughter, has been reclassified as murder, with the suspect facing the mandatory death sentence.

Police said identifying the culprit would take time as the forensics units failed to lift any fingerprints from the chair that struck the teenager, killing him instantly last Monday. – January 21, 2018.