Bodies of two missing youths recovered after drowning incident in Deniyaya

The bodies of two of the four youths who went missing after drowning while bathing in a stream in Deniyaya yesterday have been recovered.

The incident occurred yesterday (07), and search operations were launched by the Sri Lanka Navy and Police, with the assistance of area residents, to locate the two remaining missing youths.

The four youths had gone missing while bathing in a stream located in the Bewaraliya area of Deniyaya last afternoon.

They were among a group of seven youths employed at a private IT company in Colpetty who had visited the area on a private excursion. Six of them had gone to bathe at the stream, of whom four went missing.

Search operations launched by the Navy and Police yesterday continued this morning (08).

During the operations, the bodies of two of the missing youths were recovered.