and Wild Life Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has today (25)arrived at Criminal Investigations Department (CID ) Headquarters in Colombo and given a four hour statement regarding the abduction and assaulting of former Nation paper Journalist Keith Noyer during previous regime .
Field Marshal has arrived at CID Headquarters escorted by his personal security officers around 12 noon today to give a Statement as per the request made by CID as he was the Army Commander at the time of the incident .This was the second time he was being questioned over the incident.
However the CID had informed the court last May that Field Marshal Fonseka was not related to the Abduction and Assaulting of Keith Noyer
Police have launched an investigations to arrest eight youth who had taken half naked photos of them at Pidurangala Rock and published in their Facebook accounts causing chaos among many sections of the society .
The police investigations had been launched as per the complaints received from Dayaka Sabha of Pidurangala Rajamaha Temple and Department of Archeology over the incident.
The eight youth who are residents of Kurunagala and recently concluded their studies at Maliyadeva School,Kurunagala had taken the Controversial photos by facing the Sigiriya Rock and Pidurangala Temple it has been revealed.
Police have already identified two youth who were responsible for the incident and one had already published a post in his Facebook account and apologized from all Sri Lankans over what they did yesterday (24)and appealed not to insult their school and parents over the incident.
Many have criticised the incident and blame the parents of youth and their school for not teaching them discipline.
year old daughters had been killed and 11 year old son had been injured and hospitalized after colliding with a Motor Car near kunnan ode bridge at Pothuwil-Akkareipattu road last evening (24).
The critically injured Mother and two daughters had succumbed to their injuries after admission to to Pothuwil Hospital.The injured son had been Transferred to Akkareipattu Hospital for further treatment.
They were waking along the road at the time of the incident.
The deceased were residents of Nayaru junction ,Pothuwil .
Pothiwil Police have arrested the driver of the Motor Car regarding the incident.
Around 75 persons had been killed due to Wild Elephant attacks and 150 Wild Elephants had been killed due to various human activities during last eight months of this year (2018) according to Minister Of Sustainable Development and Wild Life Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka .
Around 25 percent of the crop cultivation in Sri Lanka had been destroyed annually by Wild Elephants he had stated during a function held at Nandimithra area in Vavuniya during the weekend .
"Will try to minimise the damages done to property and crops by Wild Elephants .To protect humans and their properties from Wild Elephants around 4500 Kilo meter long Elephant Fence had been built already and another 2500 Kilo meters remainEd to be built " Field Marshal Fonseka has stressed .
Around Rs.five billion had been spent to construction and maintainance work of Elephant Fence and 7000 Wild Life officers and Civil security Personal are due to be deployed to protect the fence he said .