446 NICs found in Nakkawita jungles [October 19 2010]

Four hundred and forty six national identity cards (NICs) concealed in a bang and hidden in a jungle area at Nakkawita have been recovered by Police.

Two villages who had found the suspicious bag called the Police Emergency number 119. Police believe that the NICs would gave been collected by the JVP during 1988/89 insurgency.