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Dilshani laid to rest The body of Miss Liyanage Olivia Iresha Dilshani Perera who died in a fire at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was flown home on an Aeroflot flight on Thursday, her father Mr. Liyanage Prased Shantha Perera told the 'Sunday Observer'. Grieved family members and relatives, friends and the people of Ja-Ela, her hometown, kept vigil till her funeral which took place last evening at Kudahakapola North, Ja-Ela. Dilshani and two friends had said their prayers-Dilshani being Catholic and her two friends Muslims - when the blaze engulfed their quarters in the university. 'They had the presence of mind to say their prayers at that moment,' realising that their only hope of escape was to jump out of the third storey window,' he said. It was snowing heavily when the girls made their fateful jump. While her two friends escaped death, Dilshani suffered two broken ribs, one of which pierced her heart. Her father said that he did not know whether she also suffered burn injuries. The parents were told of her death on the telephone by a Buddhist monk of the area who was known to them. The 19-year-old girl, a brilliant student, was a past pupil of Visakha Vidydalaya, Colombo and had won a scholarship to study Medicine at Lumumba University only a month ago. |
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