An individual has died due to electrocution in Gampola yesterday (Aug 29).
Police said the victim had been electrocuted while installing an electric fence to protect a paddy field from wild elephants.
The deceased has been identified as 46-year old Ranjith Tissa Kumara, a resident of Deniyagama.
An autopsy is to be carried out on his remains which currently lie at the Gampola Hospital.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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