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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Seven South Eastern University Students Arrested Over Taking Photos On Ruins Of Kiralagala Stupa Had Been Remanded

Kabithigollawa Magistrate has today

(24)ordered to Remand the seven students attached to South Eastern University who had been arrested over taking photographs of themselves by standing on ruins of Kiralagala Sthupa at Horowpathana atea and releasing them to social media ,until 05 th of February .

The suspected students who are final year Engineering students had been arrested yesterday (23)by the police over the charges of taking photographs by standing on ruins of stupa and releasing them to social media and insulting Stupa.

They had been remanded by Kabithigollawa Magistrate Malinda Alwish after being produced before the court today .

Two Females Had Been Killed Due To A Road Accident

Two females had been killed and four

others had been critically injured and Hospitalized after a Van they were travelling in.veering off the road and crashed into a Tree at 19 th Post in Karawilakotuwa, on Buttala -Kataragama road last evening (23) .

The injured had been admitted to Buttala Provincial Hospital where two females has succumbed to their injuries on last night and this morning (24)..Other four injured persons had been later transferred to MonaRagala General Hospital for further teatment .

The van is travelling from Buttala to Kataragama at the time of the incident.

One of the deceased had been identified as a 61 year old female resided in Karawilakotuwa area and four injured persons are residents of Passara area .

A Sudden Fire Erupted At A Mountain In Agarapathana

A Sudden fire erupted at

Bopaththalawa Mountain in Agarapathana area this evening (24)is spreading rapidly towards the Bopaththalawa reserve it has been reported .

The fire is spreading rapidly due to the dry weather and strong winds prevailing in Western slope areas of Central hills these days

Authorities believes the fire which erupted at the western end of Agarapathana Mountain near Government dairy farm,might have caused due to a lit of fire by a person or a group .

No one has intervene in dousing the fire up to now it has been reported .