Playing students fall off school hostel

Two Form One students fell off the first floor of their school hostel near Bentong Wednesday evening after they stretched their playful teasing too far.

Muhamad Izzudin Mohd Saadan and Hamirul Haqimi Hanafi, both 13, of Sekolah Menengah Agama Pelangi, were injured in the face and body in the fall, Bentong police chief Supt Mohamad Nor Mansor said Thursday.

He said the boys were admitted to the Sultan Ahmad Shah Hospital in Temerloh following the 6.40pm incident.

A preliminary investigation showed that the duo had been playfully teasing each other and one of them lifted the other onto the corridor wall of the hostel.

As he lost his balance, the other boy held onto him, he said, adding that both tried to get back onto the first floor corridor but fell to the ground.

"The families of the two students have been notified and police are investigating the cause of the incident. We are waiting for them to become stable before recording their statements," he said.