and a Motorcyclist was critically injured and hospitalized after the Motorcycle they were riding colliding with a Van at Kudagoda area in Midddniya-Hungama main road last night(08).
The critically injured were admitted to the Salawa Hospital where the Pilion rider had succumbed to his injuries.The injured Motorcyclist had been transferred to the Embiipitiya Hospital for further treatment.
The van driver had fled away from the scene by leaving the Van and Police have launched a search operation to arrest him .
The veteran Popular novelist ,Journalist and a Script writer Somaweera Senanayake has passed away this morning(09)while receiving treatment at a Private Hospital in Colombo at the age of 74.
The late Somaweera Senanayake began his career as a novelist in 1969 and written many famous novels including "Yashorawaya" which was later dubbed in to a tele drama very popular here.
Few of his famous tele drama scripts were "Yashorawaya","Kande Gedare",Du Daruwo" and "Manik Nadiya Gala Basee",.He also wrote scrpits of the films including "Aradana" and "Mihidum Sihina".
His funeral to be announced later."May he attain supreme bliss of Nibbana"