No such telephone call, says Senior Presidential Advisor

Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP denied a media report that a UNP politician had telephoned him immediately upon receiving the news of the death of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga. According to the media report in question, the UNP politician is supposed to have asked the Senior Presidential Advisor over telephone why a man who should have been allowed to die on the street was treated after he was brought to the hospital. Basil Rajapaksa MP vehemently denying the report said that there was no such telephone call.