The jeep, traveling towards Nawalapitiya, struck the three-wheeler, causing it to overturn with the driver and a child. The jeep then collided with a street peddler and another three-wheeler.
The injured three-wheeler driver and the young boy were rushed to Gampola Base Hospital, but the child, identified as Mohammad Siras , who had come from Qatar to visit his grandmother in Illawathura, passed away.
The driver of the jeep, the son of a businessman, has been arrested by the Gampola police.