Police probe CCTV footage in Altair building deaths
Sri Lanka Police have commenced investigations into CCTV footage on the deaths of two teenagers at a luxury apartment complex in Slave Island reported yesterday.
A boy and girl aged 15 years were reported to have died after falling off the 67th floor of the apartment complex last evening. The Police suspect the two teenagers may have died by suicide.
Preliminary investigations have found that the two were Grade 10 students of an international school in Colombo and were from the Wellawatte and Kelaniya areas.
The two school students are found to have gone to the Gym on the 5th floor of the apartment complex after school, where they had changed their clothes and left their belongings.
Police investigations reveal that they had reached the 67th floor of the building via the staircase outside the Gym.
The Police suspect that the duo may have died by suicide and that their bodies had been recovered on the 03rd floor of the 70-storey apartment complex. (Newswire)
2024-07-03
