A Person Has Drowned and another
had gone missing when they had jumped in to Mahaweli River and attempted to swim to escape from Navy Personal who had chased them over illegally involving in sand mining near MahawelI estuary at Kandalkadu area in Kinniya ,Trincomalee today (29).
The victims were 19 and 22 year old persons from Kinniya it has been revealed.
The incident occurred when a group of Navy Personal had raided a group of persons who had involved in illegal sand mining near MahawelI estuary this morning.
To escape from Navy Personal two of the sand miners had jumped in to the MahawelI River and swam .However soon they have drowned it has been revealed .
In view of catching them Navy Personal fired gun shots to the air and as a result hundreds of villagers in the area gathered near River and protested against the action .
Due to the protest Police officers were called to control the situation. Even when Navy divers attempting to launch a search mission to find the missing, Villagers opposed it according to reports.
Afterwards Navy Personal withdrew from the search mission and the villagers have launched a search mission to find out the missing persons with the help of fisheries boats .
The body of one of the missing had been recovered this evening according to sources .
