Puttur: A college student was crushed to death, on a wall collapse in Puttur, on Thursday here.

He was a Technical student and worked on leisure time, even at nights.
The victim is Prakash Kumar (19) from a Gowda family in Aryapu village. He was doing renovation work at shopping Complex. When he was digging a pit for a new wall, the adjacent wall came crashing down and covering him in the debris, He was seriously injured and succumbed to the blows.

He used to carry out cooli (labour) work to sustain his family, at nights.
He was a talented student at the Government Polytechnic in the second year in Civil engineering.

Puttur police investigating the case.