The Navy divers this morning retrieved the body of the school boy who committed suicide by jumping into the Deduru Oya reservoir yesterday.

Wariyapola police said the 17-year-old student was a resident of Kumbukgate in Kurunegala.

Police and Navy launched search operations yesterday on a complaint that a girl and a boy had jumped into Deduru Oya reservoir.

The body of the girl has not yet been recovered.