A schoolgirl died this week, after falling to death from the Lotus Tower in Colombo in what appears to be a suicide.
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A schoolgirl died this week, after falling to death from the Lotus Tower in Colombo in what appears to be a suicide.
The female student, who was studying at an international school, plummeted to death in what police suspect is a suicide. The incident is believed to have been between 3.00pm and 4.00pm.
The student's name has not been released but she was identified to have been a resident of Kollupitiya and studying in Grade 11 of an international school in Colombo. Sri Lankan police state that the death is linked to the earlier suicides of two schoolmates at the Altair luxury apartment in Slave Island.
The Lotus Tower is reportedly the tallest tower in South Asia standing at 356-metres.
The state-owned project has been beset with accusations of corruption as one of the Chinese construction companies, Aerospace Long March International Trade Co. Ltd (ALIT), had reportedly disappeared along with Rs. 2 billion - worth more than $11 million.
The Lotus flower has been as a symbol of Sinhala Buddhist nationalist identity. According to a government released concept video about the tower;
“In Sri Lanka, the Buddhist kingdom, with great desire of peace and development the lotus is considered as the flower which symbolises pure, clean and honest.”
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