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Search operations have been launched into finding a youth who had drowned and gone missing after taking a swim in the Mahaweli River near the Peradeniya Train Bridge.

Police stated that a 19-year-old youth, a resident of the Menikhinna area had gone missing on July 22 evening.

The youth had met with the accident while he had been swimming with a few others in the Mahaweli River.

Police stated that the Navy has is also assisting the search operation for the youth.

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