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Our pictures show supplies being loaded to a US aircraft to be taken from the Bandaranaike International Airport to the aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis which is in International waters off Sri Lanka. The supplies were brought to the BIA by a US military cargo plane from Bahrain, in terms of a cargo transfer initiative agreement between the US and Sri Lanka. Pix by Ishanka Sunimal.

 

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Pick of the Pix

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