COLOMBO (News 1st) – Seventeen students had been hospitalised following a beating by a school teacher in Kaththankudi.

The police stated that all seventeen students of grade 5 were beaten as they had not completed their homework.

The teacher under suspicion was remanded until the 18th following his appearance before the magistrate court.

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