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Adventurist Danish woman tourist’s death fall: Family given shocking news
View(s):By Chaminda Wewatenna
Family members of a Danish tourist who fell off a rock in Alagalla were informed on Friday about the tragic death, while arrangements are underway for a postmortem examination.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that in addition to the family members, the Denmark embassy in New Delhi was informed about the death.
The 32-year-old Danish tourist wanted to visit as many scenic places as possible, but tragedy struck when she tried to scale the Alagalla rock in Kadugannawa.
Search operations in progress. Pix by Chamil Rupasinghe
Danish National Karb Munk Ebssen, before her departure to climb the Algalla rock, told the manager of the lodge that during her stay in Kandy, she had heard about a particular rock and wanted to climb it.
Lodge Manager B.M.W.A. Devamitta told police that during her stay in Kandy, she had visited a few scenic locations and was keen to visit more such locations.
She had left the lodge last Monday and not returned that night, prompting the lodge manager to inform the tourist police.
Her body was discovered at the Alagalla mountain range after a joint search operation by the Army and the Police
on Friday.
The tourist arrived in
Sri Lanka on June 24 and checked in at a hotel at Ampitiya in Kandy on July 1.
The search party found the tourist’s body, with the bag still strapped to her, between two rocks.
Police believe she slipped and fell to her death at a precipice of more than 150 feet while trying to jump from one rock to the other.
Residents told the Sunday Times that the route from which she tried to reach the rock was seldom used by the area’s people.
At the beginning of the journey, she had asked some of the locals for directions but thereafter proceeded on her own.
Coroner Dilshan Kandemulla inspected the body on Friday. Later, the body was moved to the Peradeniya Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
(Additional reporting by Ryan Casiechetty)
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