Six students drown in seas off northern Sri Lanka

By APD Writer Easwaran

**COLOMBO, Aug. 28 (APD) – **Six Sri Lankan students drowned in northern Sri Lanka on Monday after the boat they were traveling in capsised.

The police said that seven people had taken a boat and gone out to sea off Mandaitivu, an island off the coast of Jaffna in the north of the country.

The boat capsised and six people were killed while one person managed to swim to safety.

The police said that those killed were students sitting for an ongoing local advanced level examination.

The person who escaped and a few others were arrested over the incident.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)