KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) plans to install nettings at the People's Housing Projects (PPR) to reduce the risk of accidents from people throwing items from the upper floors.
The move was announced following the death of S. Sathiwaran, a Form Three student of SMK La Salle in Petaling Jaya, who was killed when a chair, thrown from an upper floor at the Pantai Dalam PPR, struck his head last night.
DBKL housing management and community development director Wan Mohammad Ghazali Nor said the plan would be implemented soon, with PPR areas identified as “black areas” to be given attention first.
At the moment, there are 72 PPRs in the city, with 13 of them identified as ‘black areas’.
“What happened (yesterday) involved security aspects. Hence, we will be installing nettings either at the lower or upper floor of the block to shield passers-by from being hit by objects thrown from the upper floors,” he said when met at the Sri Pantai PPR today.
He said strict action, including sealing the PPR units, would be taken against residents who were found to be throwing items from the upper floors.
Wan Mohammad Ghazali said DBKL had previously issued notices to all PPR units on the matter but it fell on deaf ears.
He said City Hall would engage residents’ association and government agencies, as well as the police, on conducting community policing at the ‘black areas.