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| Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
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Thirty eight STF trainees injured Thirty eight trainee soldiers of the army Special Task Force were injured when an army bus carrying them ran off the road and toppled at Galpotta in the Habarana police area at about 5.30 a.m. yesterday. The bus was being driven from the Naula Army Camp to the Monkybridge army camp at Trincomalee. Habarana police said about 50 soldiers had been travelling in the bus at the time of the accident. Centre for Performing Arts provides Tsunami relief The Centre for Performing Arts which is one of the largest cultural organisations involved in activities to bring peace in Sri Lanka visited the Tsunami affected areas like Batticaloa, Mullaitivu, Trincomalee, Galle, Matara, Vanni and various other places to provide immediate relief assistance. Realising the situation in which the whole nation has been pushed into the Centre for Performing Arts not only distributed food items, but it has also organised a psycho social programs with the view to instil hope, confidence and courage to enable the people to emerge from this tragedy with renewed vigour and strength.
With reference to the front page story in yesterday’s Daily News, “Uncle seeks niece aged four lost in Tsunami”, Ranil Fernando who called at Lake House refuted the fact that the victim was travelling in a red intercooler jeep bearing registration No 64-6847 as claimed when she was caught in the tidal waves. Fernando claims they were travelling to Anuradhapura on December 26 in the same vehicle. He seeks Police protection. |
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