Swift help for flood-hit
Government wheels moved swiftly to assist the
affected as the death toll (16) and the number of displaced (over
150,000) rose alarmingly due to floods and landslides which wreaked
havoc in seven districts.
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Lankan critically injured in Dhaka hotel blast
More than 50 people including three foreign
nationals were injured in an explosion that occurred on Sunday at
the sixth and seventh floor of Hotel Orchard Plaza in Bangladesh’s
capital city Dhaka.
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President to address FAO conference in Rome
President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the
Leonado Da Vinci Airport in Rome yesterday morning to attend the
World Food and Agriculture Organisation Heads of State conference at
FAO Headquarters in Rome.
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Mother of dead children taken to mental unit
The mother of two Sri Lankan Tamil children who
were killed in the UK is scheduled to be sent to a secure mental
health facility, police sources said. “She was detained under the
Mental Health Act during the night of June 1,” a police spokesman
added.
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