Probe into rape incident at BIA

by Kumarasiri Prasad

Police and Bandaranaike International Airport authorities are probing the alleged rape of a 23-year-old Sri Lankan woman at the airport. Five suspects have been detained in this connection.

The woman has complained to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment that she was gang raped by five airport workers from the baggage handling and security service on October 10, while she was waiting overnight for a flight to Kuwait. She had taken the flight after the ordeal, but her employer had sent her back to Sri lanka after she developed medical complications.

She has been sent to the Negombo Base Hospital for a medical examination.