Chandigarh, May 26 -- Four days after a 17-year-old boy was critically injured as tree branches fell on him while heading for his father's cremation, he succumbed to his injuries at PGIMER's trauma centre on Sunday morning.

The incident occurred at EWS Colony in Sector 38-D amid the stormy weather on Wednesday evening, when the teenager, Rudraksh, was helping place his father's body in an ambulance for cremation.

As the family was preparing to leave, two large branches - around 10 to 12 feet long - broke and struck Rudraksh on the head.

He was rushed to PGIMER's Advanced Trauma Centre with a critical head injury. After surgery, he was shifted to the neurosurgery ward, but his condition worsened and he was placed on a ventilator in the ...