COAST GUARD RESCUED THREE LOCALS AND A FOREIGNER FROM DROWNING

The Sri Lanka Coast Guard (SLCG) Life Savers temporarily attached to Sella Katharagama Life Saving Point 02 (Menik River) saved a local teenager during a successful rescue attempt on 03^rd July 2023.

A male devotee aged 17-year-old who visited the Katharagama festival was rescued by Coast Guard rescuers attached to the Sella Katharagama Life Saving post whilst drowning at the Menik River.

During the Katharagama festival season, the SLCG temporarily establish life-saving posts near the Menik River area since a number of devotees have baths in the river and are vulnerable to the risk of drowning.

Meantime, two local males (aged 22 & 17) and a Russian male aged 43 years old were rescued by the Life Savers attached to Mount Lavinia and Mirissa public beaches respectively on the same day whilst bathing and dragging away with the current. The swift response by skilled Sri Lankan Coast Guard Life Savers saved these devotees' and other persons’ lives from drowning.

So far in 2023, Sri Lanka Coast Guard lifesavers attached to 16 life-saving posts around the country have rescued 125 invaluable lives including 55 foreigners in several successful rescue attempts.