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Largest quantity of heroin and ganja found in
Western Province:
Police declare all-out war on drugs
The offensive launched by the police against
heroin, ganja and other dangerous drugs in the Western Province has
been successful, IGP Mahinda Balasuriya told a media briefing at the
Police Headquarters in Colombo yesterday.
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Wattala robbery: Two men arrested by CCD
The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) sleuths
investigating the Rs 70 million robbery at Wattala last month have
arrested two men who are allegedly linked to several robberies of
banks, jewellery and pawn brokering shops carried out in Matugama,
Welipanne, Moratuwa, Kesbewa, Mount Lavinia and Piliyandala during
the past few months, police sources told the Sunday Observer.
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Navy seizes boat smuggling beedi
A boat carrying a large consignment of beedi
(cigarettes) manufactured in India has been seized by naval patrols
on the seas off Bathalangunduwe along with four Indians. The
suspects had trespassed into the territorial waters of Sri Lanka,
Police Media Spokesman, SP Prishantha Jayakody told the Sunday
Observer.
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Sunday Crime
Unmarried girl’s death confounds police
An unmarried young girl, Rasika Tharanganie in
her early twenties was obliged to support her unemployed father
after her mother eloped with her lover. Her mother took her younger
brother with her to live elsewhere.
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