Indian boy on cricket tour to Sri Lanka drowns in pool

A twelve-year-old Indian boy who arrived to Sri Lanka to participate in a cricket tournament drowned in a pool last evening.

The boy drowned while swimming in the pool with three other team mates at a hotel in Pamunugama.

He died after being rushed to the Pamunugama Hospital.

The deceased boy is reportedly a resident of Gujarat, India.

He was due to participate in an Under Seventeen cricket tournament along with a team of nineteen members.

Post-mortem examinations will be conducted today.

Pamunugama Police is investigating.