Samanalaweva police said that 07 senior students of the University of Sri Lanka Sabaragamuwa were arrested in connection with an incident of assaulting a female student and several students of the Faculty of Agriculture.
A group of senior students of the faculty, who are studying in the second year of the Faculty of Agriculture of Sabaragamu University, have attacked them with sticks. The police said that one of the student's teeth was broken. The police said that a female student and two students who were injured in the beating have been taken to hospital.
Police further said that after being admitted to Pambahinna Hospital, they were transferred to Balangoda Base Hospital for further treatment.
The students who were attacked said that they had brought food from outside and were having dinner in the canteen of the Faculty of Agriculture when a group of senior students came and cut off the electricity and attacked them with sticks.