London, Jul 31 (IANS): A nine-year-old British boy has died after falling from a hotel window while holidaying in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
Matthew Hamer, of York, was a popular member of an under-nine's cricket team, Daily Mail reported.
His coach Alan Fletcher said: "It is devastating news. Matthew was a good member of the under-nines team. He had been with us for three years and he was a smashing young lad.
"He never got up to any mischief...He tried really hard with his cricket and showed talent on the pitch. We understand he fell from a window or fire escape, though the detail is sketchy on precisely what happened."
The Foreign Office confirmed a British national had died in Kuala Lumpur, but said, it could not give further information as the death involved a child.
Matthew's mother Jane and father Keith, a university lecturer, are understood to be still be in Malaysia.