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Death toll rises to 27:
High-powered committee to probe Welikada Prison violence
The Government yesterday appointed a
three-member high-powered committee to probe the violence at the
Welikada Prison which led to the death of 27 inmates on Friday
evening. The police deployed a special CID team to probe the
incident, which also left several police personnel injured.
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The Poppy : Flower of Sacrifice
In ancient Cathay, long before Macro Polo first
saw its wonders and before Confucius lived to spread his philosophy
of gentleness and understanding, there grew a flower from which was
distilled a potent drug. It was white and known as the ‘Flower of
Forgetfulness’.
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Twenty-seven dead; Elite Force Commandant DIG
Ranawana among 35 injured:
Welikada prison riot ends in deadly clash
The Welikada prisons once again hit the
headlines when the horrifying story of a prison clash with Police
elite Forces ended in a deadly riot where many prisoners were
killed. A shootout broke out between the prisoners and the STF,
Prisoners went on the rampage defying orders by the STF to declare
hidden mobile telephones and drugs.
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Sunday Crime
Friend turns killer to rob gold
The abduction and disappearance of a gold broker
from Sea Street of Colombo 14 last Saturday sent shock waves among
the wealthy merchants in the area. Most of them were under the
impression that a group of people who had arrived in a van whisked
him away to a secret location where he is being kept in solitary
confinement to extort ransom money from his family.
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