A person has been killed and a child has disappeared in separate drowning accidents which occurred in Akkarapattuwa and Hidogama.

Police said that a fifteen-year-old child who was bathing in the Badurnagar sea stretch in Akkarapattuwa has
disappeared.

The police and the navy have launched operations in search of the disappeared. Meanwhile, police said that an individual who attempted to swim across Divulwewa in the Hidogama area has drowned.

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