School boy missing in Vavuniya

A school boy has been reported missing in Vavuniya, after he failed to come home on May 27th, Global Tamil News reports.

Seventeen year old Mahalingam Rajeevan, a student at Kalmadu MV School, left his home in Tharanikulam, Sasthiri Kulankulam at 5am that morning by bicycle with a 10kg of long green beans, which he took to a vegetable vendor at Vavuniya town.

He reportedly left his bicycle by the vegetable stall, telling the vendor he was going to the nearby store to buy school equipment, however failed to return and has not been seen since.

Photograph Global Tamil News

His parents have reported him as missing to Vavuniya police, the regional police, and the human rights commission, as well as the Vanni MP Sivasakthi Ananthan.

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