A search is under way for a man missing after a boat capsized in a tank in Kattankudy, Batticaloa district, the Daily Mirror reported.
Three people were aboard. One was rescued. Police said the body of one victim has been recovered, while a second person remains missing.
The Sri Lanka Navy has launched a search and rescue operation to locate him.
The count is provisional
The Daily Mirror’s headline reports two people drowned. Its own text supports one confirmed death — a body recovered — with a second person unaccounted for and the subject of an active search. Until the search concludes, the second death is presumed rather than established, and this report follows the body of the account rather than the headline.
The paper attributes the drownings themselves to reports rather than to a police confirmation, wording that usually signals an initial filing.
Not reported
No outlet has named the three people involved, given their ages, or said when the boat overturned or which tank it was on. There is no account of why it capsized, how the survivor was brought out, or who raised the alarm. The Daily Mirror does not say whether the boat was being used for fishing or transport.
No other verified newsroom had carried the incident at the time of writing, and Ada Derana, NewsFirst and Hiru News listings showed no report of it. Searches for corroboration surfaced an unrelated 2019 drowning in the same police division, which is a different event and is not a source for this report.
Casualty figures on same-day local incidents in Sri Lanka are frequently revised upward as later police tallies come in, and this one should be treated as provisional.
