A 14-year-old schoolboy who was swimming in the swimming pool in a hotel at Boralassa, Wennappuwa had drowned.
Police said the victim, a grade 10 schoolboy from Galagedara and was studying in a school in Sandalankawa.
It has been revealed that the schoolboy was swimming in the pool with fellow students while on an excursion with a group of 80 schoolchildren from a tution class in Makandura.
The Wennappuwa Police are conducting further investigations.
