A seventy-four-year-old woman drowned in a well dug out on a cultivation land in Bandaranayake Mawatha, Kandapola earlier today.
The deceased, identified as Fatima Ummah, was a resident of Bandaranayake Mawatha, Kandapola.
The Nuwara Eliya Magistrate is due to conduct magisterial investigations.
Kandapola Police is investigating.