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Circular sent to schools on student safety

(UTV | COLOMBO) – Thirty eight people including 16 school children have died by drowning while bathing and swimming in deep village tanks and unsafe waterways countrywide during this year.

Consequently, the Education Ministry has requested all schools heads in a Circular that when school educational and field trips are organised, students should not be allowed to bathe in unsafe rivers, village tanks or reservoirs under any circumstances by teachers responsible for the respective students.

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