In Brief

Sex workers warned of acid attacks

Posters have come up in the Negombo town, warning sex workers of acid attacks.

According to reports, the number of sex workers in the town has increased of late, but the recent poster warnings have sent most of them underground. The source of the posters was unknown.

Selva

Three children drown, mother rescued

A young mother in Thandikulam, Vavuniya has pushed her three children, aged one-and-a-half to four years, in to a well and jumped in herself last Friday.

The three children were drowned while the woman was rescued by the neighbours and hospitalised. Vavuniya Police said the suspect mother is a mental patient. - Selva

MoU on Sampur soon

Sri Lanka will sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of the coal power plant in Sampur with India's National Thermal Power Company (NTPC) later this month, Power and Energy Ministry sources said.