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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Special Police Task Force Arrested Three Persons With 15,000 KG Of Waste Tea

Police officers attached to the organized

Crimes Raid unit of the Special Police Task Force have arrested three persons including a Lorry driver and taken in to custody around 15,000 Kilo grammes of Waste Tea at Kandegoda in Ambalangoda today (16).

Police officers have earlier arrested the Lorry driver whilst transporting around 4000 Kilo Grammes of waste tea in a Lorry at Kandegoda area .

Later the officers had raided the Waste Tea factory in Ambalangoda where the Waste tea is prepared accordance to the information provided by the Lorry driver during questioning and arrested two workers along with 11,000 Kilo Grammes of Waste Tea .

A Tea Estate Worker Died And Another Injured Due To A Wasp Attack

A Tea Estate Worker attached to the

Abosley Tea Estate in Hatton police division has died and another worker had been injured and hospitalized due to a wasp attack occurred whilst plucking tea leaves in the Estate this noon (16).

Two injured Tea Estate workers one of them critically had been admitted to the Dikoya Base Hospital where the critically injured worker had succumbed to his injuries whilst admitting to the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital .

The incident occurred due to a wasps in a nest attached to a Tea plant provoked and began attacking the workers of the estate .

The deceased worker was attacked by many wasps it has been revealed .