An attempt to catch the ball in a game of cricket turned out to be fatal for a 13-year old boy, who died after slipping into a deep gorge in ward number five of Badkot in Uttarkashi district on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Kamlesh Semwal, the son of a Jal Sansthan clerk Radheshyam Semwal.
According to reports, the teenager was playing cricket on the ITI campus at Badkot when the ball ended up outside the ground landing on the edge. While attempting to retrieve the ball, the boy lost his balance and fell down into a deep gorge. When he did not return with the ball, the others who were playing cricket went to check only to find that he had fallen into the gorge. He was somehow rescued and admitted to the community health centre in Badkot where the teenager died in the course of treatment.