Following the trend of keeping the neck to the train ... 16 year old schoolgirl commits suicide last night at Kottawa

An incident was reported of an instance where a 16 year old schoolgirl had kept her neck to a train near Kottawa Railway Station at about 7.20 in the night yesterday (14) and thus committed suicide. Even before some days elapsed where a graduate from Peradeniya campus kept her neck to a moving train and died, this young girl too had died in the same fashion and her head was completely detached from the body, it was reported. Her corpse was brought in the

School equipment, a mobile phone and identity card found inside her travelling bag wee handed over to police by the railway station-master. When attempting to contact her home according to particulars in the identity card, there had been a call to her mobile phone at 8 that night and the caller had inquired as to the reason of the delay and an officer of the police had intelligently answered the caller saying that the victim had sustained minor injuries because of an accident and to come to Homagama Hospital without getting panicked.

Report -- Manoj Rupasingha