31 January 2022 07:57 am Views - 291
The bodies of the five individuals who drowned in the Gerandi Ella Falls in Ettampitiya had been recovered by yesterday afternoon. Four of them had been recovered on Saturday (29) and the other yesterday afternoon by Navy divers.
The deceased David Kumar (23), Jeyaram Subramanium Kanchana Niriya ( 21) Raja David Sanju (19) M.Bavani (24), and Sevakumar Shashipriya (22) were residents of Ettampitiya Estate. The body recovered last was that of Shashipriya. Her body had been stuck in between two boulders.
Police said they recovered bodies with the help of the army from Badulla and Navy divers.
Investigations revealed that a group of eleven had gone for a bath in the waterfalls after attending an alms giving at a house in the estate and five of them met with the accident when bathing in a deep pit below the waterfalls.
OIC Ettampitiya Police CI Wasantha Ranasinghe, is conducting investigations on the instructions of SP B. M. M. Dasanayake and SSP Kalinga Jayasinghe.