Sri Lanka, Sept. 25 -- A young man has died after falling into a well while allegedly attempting to flee a police raid on an illicit liquor operation in Ramanathapuram.

A team of officers from the Ramanathapuram Police Station had gone to a house in the Unit 06 area on Karungalai Road, where the illicit liquor was being produced.

As police arrived, the 24-year-old man allegedly attempted to escape with the liquor but fell into a nearby well.

Police officers and residents immediately rescued him and took him to Kilinochchi Hospital, but he died while receiving treatment.

According to police sources, the man had been arrested on three previous occasions for similar offences.

Ramanathapuram Police are conducting further investigations....