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| Sunday, 25 April 2004 |
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Wayamba polls: Decrease in voter turnout by Prasad Purnimal, Puttalam Group Correspondent Nanda Ekanayake, Kurunegala Central Group and Central Special There was a decrease in the voters turn out at the polls to elect 50 members to the Wayamba Provincial Council yesterday. Unlike the previous occasion the number of police officers deployed to the polling stations had been increased from two to five, police said. Marawila Police told the "Sunday Observer" that they seized a vehicle with blood stains yesterday morning along with two persons travelling in the same vehicle were taken into police custody." The vehicle did not have a number plate", the Police added. A police constable died on the spot, when a van carrying ballot boxes to Kurunegala, in yesterday's Wayamba Provincial Council elections, went off the road and hit a tree at the Wariyapola-Padeniya junction. A sergeant and two elections officers are warded at the Kurunegala hospital. The police conducted the ballot boxes safely to Kurunegala. Anamaduwa Police said that they had received information to say that a timber mill at Sangattakulama, Anamaduwa had been set ablaze in early Saturday morning by an unidentified gang. She also said that counting of the Postal votes had begun by Saturday 4.30 pm and added that they hope to announced Postal votes results before Mid night. As there was heavy rain in the evening, less counting officers were present at some of the Counting Centres, at the time of the counting of postal votes began. By the time this edition went to press our reporters informed that the counting of the ballot papers have begun and that the results would be announced around 2.00 am Sunday. |
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