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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Container Transporters To Increase Container Charges By 15 Percent

The United Lanka Container Transporters Association has decided to increase the Container Transport Charges by 15 percent with effect from 20 th of May due to the recent fuel price increase the Assosiation has announced today(12).

Meanwhile Ceylon Peteoleum Private Tank Owners too handed over a price mechanism to the Ministry of Transport regarding increasing of their transport charges.

A Six Month Old Girl Was Killed Due To A Vehicle Collision In Beruwala

A six month old infant girl was killed

and two others including her mother were injured and hospitalized due to a Cab-Motorcycle-Three Wheeler collision occurred at Marakkalawatte ,Beruwala area in Galle-Colombo main road today(12).

The critically injured girl and her mother travelling in the Motorcycle were admitted to the Beruwala Hospital for treatment and later the little girl was transferred to the Nagoda Hospital in Kalutara for further treatment where she had succumbed to her injuries.

A person travelled in the Three wheeler which was collided with a Cab too injured due to the collision and admitted to Nagoda Hospital for treatment.The deceased girl was a resident of Beruwela according to the Police.

The accident occurred when the Motorcycle and a Three Wheeler arrived in from a same direction collided with the Cab arrived in from the opposite direction it has been revealed.

Police have arrested the Cab driver regarding the incident.

A Large Amount Of Cloths Have Been Destroyed Due To A Fire Erupted In A Popular Cloth Shop In Ratmalana

A large amount of ready made cloths

have been destroyed due to a huge fire suddenly erupted in a Store house belonging to a popular Cloth shop located at Borupana road near Hindu Collage in Ratmalana this evening(12).

The fire which was erupted in the store house where the ready made cloths stored in the first floor of the three storied cloth shop building soon spreaded to the other two floors of the building it has been reported.

The fire which lasted around five hours have doused by the fire brigades of Dehiwala,Mount Lavinia and Moratuwa Urban Councils and the fire brigade of the Colombo Municipal Council.

The store house of the cloth shop received extensive damages and no casualties have been reported due to the fire as the few workers who were in the floor where the fire had erupted quickly moved out from the floor at the time of the incident according to the authorities.

The cause of the fire not yet been revealed.