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Couple camping in elephant corridor attacked, one dead
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Investigations into the death of a young woman killed while camping in the Diyaluma Ella area has revealed that the location where she had camped with her fiancé was located in an elephant corridor.
Tharushi Kaveesha
Tharushi Kaveesha (23) was a nurse working in a private hospital in Kurunegala, and her fiance (22), a Sales Development Officer in a private company.
They had travelled from Kurunegala to Haputale on a motorcycle on Thursday, where they had eaten lunch at a friend’s house and proceeded to the Koslanda Upper Diyaluma area.
The couple had befriended two people who had assisted them to camp in a tent near the elephant corridor of the Upper Diyaluma Ella area.
They had apparently ignored the sounds of a dog barking around 10.30 pm and had stayed on in the tent and they were subsequently attacked by a wild elephant.
The youth had called his friends and told them of the attack and they had advised him to inform the Police, but he had not done so. The friends had eventually called the police the next morning.
It was too late.
When Police had arrived at the scene the young woman was already dead.
Police and villagers were able to chase away the elephant who was still roaming the area. The young man who had also sustained injurieswas admitted to hospital. Police have arrested the two people who assisted the couple to set up tent.
Villagers at the scene of the attack.
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