The Hikkaduwa Tourist Police said that the police lifeguards rescued a foreign tourist couple and their two-and-a-half-year-old child who fell into the sea while enjoying a canoe-type vessel in the Hikkaduwa sea.
Seeing that these foreign tourists were in danger, the police lifeguards immediately jumped into the sea, swam for a distance of four hundred meters and saved the lives of the British foreign tourists who were in danger, the police officers told us.
On the instructions of the Director of the Police Naval Division, Police Inspector Hevage, Sub-Inspector Sirimal, Police Constables Saman (81212) Hulangamuwa (87306) and ANP Lanka and W. By Coast Guard Officers NMAI Vanninayake.