Deyata Kirula exhibition - police warn bathers
The police yesterday cautioned thousands of
visitors who are due to arrive at the Deyata Kirula exhibition in
Ampara to be careful while bathing in the surrounding tanks and
rivers due to the high risk of drowning. There are a number of small
and large scale tanks in and around Ampara where people take a dip
due to the prevailing hot weather.
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No mercy for jaywalkers
Jaywalkers have finally met their Waterloo. The
traffic police has been given strict orders to apprehend pedestrians
who do not adhere to traffic rules said a senior police officer.
About 300 offenders are caught by the police daily. It is a common
scene at Borrella junction by pass, Pettah, Slave-Island and
Kollupitiya as well as busy junctions that pedestrians do not follow
the zebra crossings but cross the road at the risk of life.People do
not realise the degree of danger and other complications involved in
this negative practice.
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SUNDAY CRIME
Woman throws acid on police, mayhem in village
“My house has been broken into and all my
jewellery which I kept so safely even without wearing has been
stolen. Someone has broken into my home while I was away. I had just
gone to the town and when I came back I found the window which I had
locked had been wrenched open and my house had been broken into.
Then my pettagama had been ransacked and all the jewellery which I
kept safely inside was stolen”. This was the lament of podi Nona
when she lodged a complaint with the Dedigama police.
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