Two 16-year-old students, due to sit for the GCE Ordinary Level examination this time, who had told their parents they were going to attend a tuition class and then gone sea bathing had been swept in a current at sea and killed.
The two students studying at Hindu Vidyalaya in Batticaloa were residents of Irudiyapuram and Karuvappankerni.
They had said they were going to attend a tuition class, day before yesterday (6) and left their homes, and while sea bathing off the coast of Kokuvil they had been caught up in a current and been swept away, police said.
The Police media spokesman’s office said that the bodies of the two students were found on the beach yesterday (7).
Monday, May 8, 2023 – 01:00