Two students who tried 'selfies' ... drop down from Rumassala and still missing

Two students who tried 'selfies' ... drop down from Rumassala and still missing

Four young boys who had climbed on top of a rock along Unawatuna Rumassala and were clicking selfie photos had fallen down and two youth had gone missing last evening (16) around 4 o'clock. A group comprising five of Ginimellagaha, Baddegama, Galle had visited Unawatuna Rumassala to enjoy a bath. Among this group here had been four boys and one girl. The four boys in this crowd had climbed a rock in Rumassala and tried to capture a selfie photograph and a tidal wave has gushed in at that moment

when the four of them had fallen into the waters with two of them being washed away by the sea and these two have rescued their lives by clinging on to a rock, police say.

The missing youth in this instance are a 20 year old boy named Nilanga Malith living in Ginimellagaha, Baddegama and 21 year old youth by the name of Ravindu Prabhath. The other two boys who had fallen from the rock were caught by the wave and washed away. They had in fact been preparing to sit for this year's advanced level examination. This location was not a place conducive for bathing purposes and these four boys had come to Rumassala and after climbing the rock at this spot and had been engaged in clicking photographs, it was revealed at investigations. 

The location concerned is a place where waves come dashing in violently and these four youth had gone there to see its splendour and have succumbed to this tragedy, police say. This crowd of youth had said that they were to attend a private class and had come to have a bath at 'Jungle beach'  and in the process had climbed a rock in that area and after having captured a selfie photo and on turning around when they had got trapped in a tidal wave in which instance they had lost their footing and fallen into the sea. 

Diving teams of Naval Southern Camp have launched search operations in search of these two missing boys and Habaraduwa police officers too have offered their support in this connection. A police spokesman of Habaraduwa said that this area is dangerous and that even before this two others had been preyed upon by the sea in this very same manner. Habaraduwa police are conducting inquiries relating to the incident.