Teenager commits suicide

9 March 2011 05:15 am

A teenage girl and a boy who were in love jumped down the Hirana new bridge into the Bolgoda River in the early hours of this morning. The girl was saved by the employees of a nearby hotel with the help of a fisherman however, the boy has died.

It is reported that they had decided to commit suicide when the girl’s parents warned her to give up her relationship with the victim.
The victim was identified as  S.A.Kavindu Dilshan, a resident of Madapatha. Piliyandala.  His body was recovered a short while ago by the Navy divers.

Inquiries revealed that he was a student of a school in Wellawatte and his fiancée a student of a girls’ school in Moratuwa. (Kusal Chamath)