Two youths found dead at house construction site in Badulla

By Prasad Rukmal   

The bodies of two young men were recovered from a house under construction in Passara area on Sunday evening.   

The diseased were identified as Manikku Arachchilage Sahan  Madusanka (35) of Gampola and Gardisahabanduge Don Sanjula Madushan (28)  of Passara.   

Police said the two young men would have died from injecting an excessive amount of intoxicants, as suspected. Passara Magistrate Uditha Sampath, who visited the scene and  held the preliminary magisterial inquiry ordered police to refer the  bodies to the JMO- Badulla Teaching Hospital for postmortem.   

 A police team under OIC Passara Police Chief Inspector  Piyaratne Ekanayake is conducting further investigations on the  instructions of ASP 

Wehitha Deshapriya.