{"id":102648,"date":"2020-05-21T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102648"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:36:54","slug":"thalawakele-oic-saves-the-life-of-a-young-girl-who-jumped-into-the-kotmale-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/21\/thalawakele-oic-saves-the-life-of-a-young-girl-who-jumped-into-the-kotmale-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Thalawakele OIC saves the life of a young girl who jumped into the Kotmale reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The OIC of the Thalawakele Police has managed to save the life of a young girl who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Upper Kotmale reservoir .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAccording to our correspondent, a 28-year-old father of two has drowned while trying to save the girl.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dad\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dd2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0d9c\u0dda \u0da2\u0dd3\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca  \u0db6\u0dda\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dad\u0dca \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTVbxAfV1Pg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The girl had jumped into the reservoir near the railway bridge that had been built across the Upper Kotmale reservoir at around 10 am this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nOur correspondent stated that a man who was near the bridge had jumped into the reservoir to save the girl.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  The young man who swam towards the girl had disappeared in the reservoir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> However, the OIC of the Thalawakele Police had jumped into the reservoir with the help of other officers and rescued her when the girl emerged from the reservoir again, using a rope and a tube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> It is reported that the OIC was able to save the girl within 10 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Meanwhile, the police lifeguards and residents of the area have unearthed the body of a father of two who drowned while trying to save the girl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He is a resident of Rathnillakele, Talawakele. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The young woman had jumped into the reservoir near the place where he was working as a carpenter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> His body is to be sent to the Nuwara Eliya Base Hospital for post-mortem examination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAccording to our correspondent, the water level of the reservoir has risen with the heavy rains experienced in the Upper Kotmale catchment areas.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The OIC of the Thalawakele Police has managed to save the life of a young girl who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Upper Kotmale reservoir . According to our correspondent, a 28-year-old father of two has drowned while trying to save the girl. The girl had jumped into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}