THE news report on “Boy killed after falling into manhole with cover removed” in The Star yesterday shocked me (online at bit.ly/star_manhole).
It is quite common for manhole covers to be stolen, leaving many housing areas with open manholes or drains. Yet replacement covers or actions responding to such thefts are often not very swift.
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