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Airport rape: Court orders parade
Five airport workers who allegedly raped a Kuwait-bound Sri Lankan woman after drugging her are to be produced for an identification parade.

Kanuwana Magistrate A.R. Attygala asked the police to produce all the evidence before court and produce the suspects – two security guards and three employees of a private cleaning company – for an identification parade.

The 23-year-old victim, a mother of a child, was allegedly lured into a workers’ room on Monday and raped by the five suspects who posed as immigration officials.

The woman later left for Kuwait but her employer sent her back as he felt she was sick. On her arrival in Colombo on Tuesday, the victim complained to the Foreign Employment Bureau’s airport office who directed her to the Airport police. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan Airlines authorities have sacked two security officers who were allegedly involved in a foreign currency racket.

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