Undergraduate Buddhist monk drowned in Pasi Kuda sea

Buddhist student undergraduate monk passes away drowned in Pasi Kuda sea

A group of undergraduates in the first year in the academic faculty in the Colombo faculty had embarked on an educational study tour to Batticaloa on the 01st instant.

During the tour the group had made a pleasure trip to the Pasi Kuda beach where some had decided to walk along the sea shore. One Bikkhu undergraduate monk had unfortunately had been driven away by a wave and had got drowned and passed away.

The thera is from Kurunegala Thorayaya and had been ordained at the Sri Nandarama temple from where sent to the Maliyadeva Pirivena for higher education from where he had been selected to the Colombo campus  academic faculty.

The deceased thera  is 22 years old and by name is Dineke Chandrananda thera.The post mortem had been held at the Valachchnai base hospital.